Colorado Springs Colorado USA-1974: Ducks Swimming in Calm River with Tree Banks

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

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Ducks Swimming in Calm River with Tree Banks — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1974, capturing a serene riverside scene. The clip shows a calm body of water with ducks swimming, surrounded by a lush tree-lined bank with mixed evergreen and deciduous trees. A small patch of yellow-leafed shrubbery adds color contrast. The image has the characteristic grain, color saturation, and soft focus of 8mm film, with natural daylight and a slightly shaky camera movement. This authentic archival footage evokes a sense of peaceful Americana and nostalgic family memories.

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: 120968011

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 nature footage for documentary inserts, regional atmosphere, or quiet archival cutaways of waterfowl and a tree-lined bank.
Period detail: The scene may show a 1974 home-movie view of a landscaped waterway in Colorado Springs, with visual period evidence mainly carried by the 8mm color stock, handheld framing, and soft exposure rather than by identifiable built details.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the unstaged feel of a family or visitor pausing to film ducks and reflected trees from across the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippling water, ducks near the surface, a shaded tree-lined bank, evergreen and deciduous foliage, a yellow-leafed shrub, rocks along the shore, and small pale signs or markers in the background.
Film character: The clip shows saturated 8mm color, visible grain, soft focus, slight handheld movement, and uneven exposure that give the scene authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a peaceful cutaway, memory beat, nature insert, or transition between Colorado travel, park, or family-reel sequences.
Historical context: The footage reflects a casual 1970s leisure observation of urban or park-like waterside nature without visible people, vehicles, signage, or landmarks that would support narrower claims.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or obvious private property are visible in these frames, but copyright, location verification, and any underlying property restrictions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1974 Colorado Springs 8mm ducks on water, 1970s home movie riverside trees, vintage Colorado park lake footage, and archival waterfowl cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1974 Colorado Springs material, and finally with broader 1970s nature, park, river, lake, and waterfowl footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1974 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing ducks on a calm body of water with trees, rocks, and a small pale marker along the opposite bank. — Ducks swim near a shaded bank lined with trees.

1974 Colorado Springs 8mm frame with ducks moving across rippled water in front of a wooded bank with mixed foliage and shoreline rocks. — Ducks cross rippled water below mixed trees.

1974 Colorado Springs 8mm frame looking across water toward a shaded bank with dense trees, a yellow shrub, rocks, and small ducks near the surface. — A shaded waterside bank reflects in the moving water.

1974 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing a wider view of rippling water, ducks, overhanging branches, and a tree-covered bank in natural daylight. — The camera holds on ducks and trees beside the water.

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