San Luis Colorado-1965: Human Skeleton Lying On Ground Under Large Blue Plastic

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Year1965
Decade1960s
LocationSan Luis, Colorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Human Skeleton Lying On Ground Under Large Blue Plastic — Clip Details

SAN LUIS COLORADO-1965: A disturbing 8mm home movie clip shows a human skeleton lying on the ground, partially covered by a large blue plastic tarp. The grainy, low-light footage captures the wrinkled fabric and skeletal remains in a somber, eerie scene. The dark, shadowy environment and vintage film quality evoke a sense of mystery and historical documentation, typical of 1960s amateur archival recordings. This raw, unfiltered footage is ideal for documentaries, true crime content, or historical retrospectives.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124750274

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 1321 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: vacation #2,mt evans
Reel-level year note: 1964-1965
Reel-level location note: black hills,colorado,mesa verde,ouray
Date: 1965 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: San Luis, 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: 1960s 8mm footage for editors seeking a brief, somber cutaway of apparent skeletal remains under blue plastic for documentary or archival investigation sequences.
Period detail: The blue-purple color cast, heavy grain, and 8mm framing support the stated 1965 home-movie origin, though the visible setting offers few independent era clues.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes at close range with an amateur, unstaged steadiness, emphasizing the tarp, shadowed ground, and possible remains rather than a composed scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include wrinkled blue plastic, dark fabric or ground, a pale skull-like form, deep shadows, black frame edges, and uneven 8mm exposure.
Film character: The clip has dense grain, low-light exposure, slight blur, and strong blue color shift that give the scan a raw physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or visual evidence beat in a sequence about discovery, mortality, archaeology, or unresolved investigation.
Historical context: The footage visually suggests a small-scale home-movie record of an unsettling outdoor or ground-level scene, without enough detail to confirm the circumstances.
Research note: Because apparent human remains are visible, use should receive sensitive-content review and any copyright, likeness, ethical, or location concerns should be checked separately.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1960s 8mm footage of apparent human skeletal remains, blue tarp, ground-level discovery, San Luis Colorado, or archival home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other material from the same reel, then with San Luis or Colorado 1965 footage, then with related archive clips on archaeology, remains, or investigative scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1965 San Luis, Colorado 8mm frame showing wrinkled blue plastic near a pale skull-like form in low light. — Blue plastic lies beside a pale skull-like shape in a dark, grainy frame.

1965 San Luis, Colorado 8mm frame dominated by wrinkled blue plastic with dark edges and low-light grain. — A close view of folded blue plastic fills the frame.

1965 San Luis, Colorado 8mm frame showing blue plastic spread across a dark, shadowed surface. — Blue plastic lies across a shadowed surface in low light.

1965 San Luis, Colorado 8mm frame showing blue plastic beneath darker folded material, with no clear face visible. — Blue plastic sits below darker folds near the edge of the frame.

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