Colorado Springs Colorado USA-1974: Ducks Swimming On A Clear Lake

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Year1974
Decade1970s
LocationColorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Ducks Swimming On A Clear Lake — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1974, showing several ducks swimming calmly on a clear lake. The water reflects dappled sunlight, with scattered yellow leaves floating on the surface. Ducks glide smoothly across the rippling water, some in the foreground and others further back near a tree-lined shore. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and soft focus typical of 8mm home movies from the era, capturing a serene, nostalgic moment of wildlife in a natural setting.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120967888

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1379 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1974
Reel-level location note: vail colorado
Date: 1974 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful as 1970s Colorado 8mm wildlife cutaway footage for documentary, museum, educational, or editorial sequences needing quiet lake activity without visible people.
Period detail: The scene shows few date-specific clues beyond the 8mm color home-movie texture and metadata-supported 1974 Colorado Springs setting, with ducks on a wooded lakeshore.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds a casual observer's view of ducks moving across rippled water, preserving an unstaged home-movie moment of outdoor recreation or travel observation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include several ducks, green lake water, small ripples, floating yellow leaves, a shaded tree-lined bank, and dark contact-sheet borders between frames.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm focus, visible grain, mild color fading, uneven exposure, and a steady but informal framing that reads as original home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief nature insert, quiet transition, establishing cutaway, or reflective memory beat within a Colorado, travel, wildlife, or 1970s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents everyday attention to urban or park-like wildlife in a 1970s home-movie context, without visible people, signage, or identifiable buildings in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in the supplied frames, but copyright, location permissions, and broader reel context should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1974 Colorado Springs 8mm ducks on lake, 1970s home movie waterfowl, vintage wildlife cutaway, and calm lake ripples with leaves.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1974 Colorado Springs outdoor footage, then broader 1970s 8mm nature, park, lake, and waterfowl material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1974 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing ducks spread across a green lake surface with ripples, floating leaves, and a wooded bank at the top of the frame. — Ducks move across rippled lake water near the shore.

1974 Colorado Springs 8mm frame with multiple ducks on a calm green lake, scattered yellow leaves on the surface, and a narrow tree-lined shore visible above. — Multiple ducks glide through sunlit ripples.

1974 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing ducks at different distances on rippled green lake water, with a shaded bank and floating leaves in view. — Foreground ducks pass below a more distant duck on the lake.

1974 Colorado Springs 8mm frame with ducks crossing a green lake surface, including darker birds in the foreground, a lighter duck farther back, floating leaves, and soft blue reflections. — Ducks cross the lake surface amid leaves and reflections.

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