Colorado USA-1967: Dark 8mm Footage of Burning Structure with Smoke Plume

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Year1967
Decade1960s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1967 Colorado

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Dark 8mm Footage of Burning Structure with Smoke Plume — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1967, this dark, grainy footage captures a mysterious nighttime scene in Colorado. A large plume of smoke billows into the night sky from a structure or mound, with faint light illuminating debris and a wooden framework in the foreground. The image quality reflects vintage home movie characteristics—low light, high contrast, and visible film grain—creating a haunting, archival atmosphere. The setting appears rural or industrial, with no people visible, emphasizing the eerie stillness of the burning site.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & whiteNight
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124073075

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 1105 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: cb&Q RR kolor karavan tour southwestern colorado
Reel-level year note: 1967
Reel-level location note: colorado
Date: 1967 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: Useful for 1960s archival requests needing dark 8mm evidence of a nighttime fire, smoke plume, or rural-industrial emergency scene in Colorado.
Period detail: The clip may show a 1967 Colorado outdoor structure or debris fire, with visible wooden framing, rough ground, and low-light home-movie exposure.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a fixed or lightly handheld distance, preserving an unstaged witness view rather than a formal news or fire-response record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a heavy smoke plume, bright fire glow, dark wooden framing, scattered debris, rough ground, and deep nighttime shadows.
Film character: The 8mm image has dense grain, underexposed shadows, greenish color cast, high contrast, and contact-print edge artifacts that signal original home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, ominous transition, disaster cutaway, or memory beat for a 1960s rural fire sequence.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for how a private 1960s camera recorded a fire at night, without enough detail to identify the exact structure or incident.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but property, location, incident identity, and copyright status still require normal clearance review.
Research search match: Search matches include 1967 Colorado 8mm fire footage, nighttime smoke plume home movie, rural structure burning, and vintage dark fire scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then other Colorado 1967 clips, then broader 1960s fire, smoke, rural, or industrial hazard footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1967 Colorado 8mm frame showing a nighttime smoke plume above wooden framing, with firelight near debris in the foreground. — Smoke rises over a dark wooden structure as firelight illuminates debris below.

Nighttime 8mm view in Colorado, 1967, with smoke over a dark structure and bright firelight beside scattered material. — A large smoke plume hangs over the firelit structure and surrounding debris.

Grainy 1967 Colorado 8mm frame of a nighttime fire scene, with smoke, wooden framing, and a bright glow near ground debris. — Firelight flares at ground level beneath smoke and dark structural framing.

Underexposed 1967 Colorado 8mm frame with faint smoke or reflected light visible above a mostly dark outdoor scene. — The scene falls into near darkness, with only faint smoke or reflected light remaining visible.

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