Gila National Forest New Mexico-1973: Layered Rock Formations and Lake in Gila Forest

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationGila National Forest New, Mexico
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 New Mexico

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Layered Rock Formations and Lake in Gila Forest — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1973, this vintage home movie captures scenic views from a moving vehicle through Gila National Forest, New Mexico. The footage features layered rock formations, scattered pine trees, and a tranquil lake surrounded by forested hills under a clear blue sky. The perspective shifts as the camera moves, offering a nostalgic glimpse of the natural landscape. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, evoking a sense of adventure and memory from a classic American road trip.

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: 124349748

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 1275 · Super 8 · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1973
Reel-level location note: mexico
Date: 1973 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: Gila National Forest New, Mexico 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: 1970s 8mm home-movie landscape footage for documentary inserts, travel-history sequences, conservation context, or road-trip memory edits set in New Mexico forest country.
Period detail: The clip may show 1973 visitor-shot scenery, with the era most visible in the 8mm color shift, handheld framing, and moving-vehicle perspective rather than in built structures or clothing.
Home-movie behavior: The footage preserves an unstaged traveler's viewpoint, watching cliffs, pines, and lake scenery from a passing vehicle or roadside stop without people performing for camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include layered rock cliffs, scattered pine trees, blue sky, forested hills, a pale green lake, shoreline brush, and dark 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm grain, slight blur from motion, blue-magenta color drift, uneven exposure, and rounded frame edges that support its home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief scenic insert, travel transition, geographic cutaway, or reflective memory beat between road-trip or public-lands sequences.
Historical context: The views document recreational observation of Southwestern forest and lake scenery in the early 1970s without visible development, crowds, or identifiable people.
Research note: No people, logos, music, or private property are visible in the supplied frames, but copyright, location identification, and land-use context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1973 8mm Gila National Forest scenery, New Mexico rock formations, vintage road-trip landscape, pine hills, and forest lake footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 Gila National Forest or New Mexico clips, then broader vintage public-lands, lake, and road-trip scenery.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 8mm view in Gila National Forest, New Mexico, showing banded rock formations, sparse pines, and blue sky from a moving or roadside vantage. — Layered rock formations and scattered pine trees under a clear sky.

Close 8mm frame of banded rock formations in Gila National Forest, with small trees on the ridge and visible film softness from motion. — Closer view of horizontal rock layers with trees along the top edge.

1973 home-movie frame of striated New Mexico cliff faces, tightly framed with visible grain and slight motion blur. — Striated cliff face fills the frame during the scenic pass.

Gila National Forest lake view from 1973 8mm footage, with pale water, wooded hills, shoreline trees, and a hazy blue sky. — Lake and forested hills appear after the rock formation views.

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