Colorado USA-1958: Prairie Dog Running Across Rocky Plain

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Colorado

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Prairie Dog Running Across Rocky Plain — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a prairie dog running across a sun-drenched, rocky plain in Colorado. The small rodent darts across the arid terrain, its brown fur blending with the dusty earth and scattered stones. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and a slightly shaky handheld perspective, evoking a nostalgic slice of mid-century Americana. This archival clip offers authentic wildlife footage ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 123598368

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 1634 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: vacation,july,august,reel-1
Reel-level year note: 1958
Reel-level location note: colorado
Date: 1958 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, 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: 1950s Colorado 8mm wildlife footage suited to documentary cutaways, natural-history inserts, or mid-century travel and home-movie sequences.
Period detail: The visible period clue is the 8mm color home-movie texture rather than built environment, with a rocky Colorado plain supporting the 1958 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor-shot feel, following a small prairie dog across open ground from a handheld outdoor viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a prairie dog, dusty rocky soil, scattered stones, bright sun exposure, soft focus, film borders, and brief motion blur.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, warm faded color, slight handheld instability, and uneven sharpness that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife insert, outdoor transition, Colorado travel cutaway, or memory beat within a home-movie montage.
Historical context: The scene visually documents casual mid-century wildlife observation in an arid Colorado landscape without showing people, buildings, or identifiable events.
Research note: No people, brands, or private property are visible, but users should still verify copyright status and any location or wildlife-use requirements for their project.
Research search match: Likely researcher searches include 1950s Colorado prairie dog 8mm, vintage home movie wildlife, rocky prairie animal footage, and mid-century outdoor nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Colorado footage, then broader prairie, wildlife, desert, or rocky-landscape home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

A small prairie dog appears among scattered rocks on a sunlit Colorado plain in 1958 home-movie footage. — Prairie dog low to the ground amid stones and dusty soil.

The prairie dog moves across a rocky, sunlit patch of Colorado terrain in the 1958 8mm clip. — Prairie dog in motion across dry, stone-strewn ground.

A handheld 8mm frame shows dusty rocky Colorado ground, with the small animal partly obscured by blur and texture. — Rock-strewn ground as the animal moves through the frame.

A prairie dog is visible again among scattered stones on dry Colorado terrain in the 1958 home-movie frame. — Prairie dog blends into the rocky, sunlit soil.

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