Denver Colorado-1949: Horse Race With Riders Falling

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Year1949
Decade1940s
LocationDenver, Colorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Horse Race With Riders Falling — Clip Details

DENVER COLORADO-1949: This vintage 8mm home movie captures a chaotic moment at a horse racing event. The grainy, purple-tinted footage shows two riders on horses in the midst of a race, with one rider falling from their mount onto the track. The scene unfolds in a stadium with visible bleachers, and the low-resolution, nostalgic quality of the Super 8 film evokes a sense of mid-century Americana. The action is raw and unpolished, offering authentic archival footage of a sporting event from the late 1940s.

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: 124751802

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 1305 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: trail ridge
Reel-level year note: 1950-1949
Reel-level location note: iowa,kansas city,truman home,colorado,central city,
Date: 1949 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: Denver, 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 1940s documentary or editorial projects needing brief home-movie evidence of a horse race accident in Denver, Colorado.
Period detail: The bleacher seating, rail, and amateur 8mm color footage may show a mid-century racetrack setting consistent with the supplied 1949 Denver metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unscripted spectator viewpoint as riders and horses lose control during a race, captured without staged coverage or polish.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include horses in motion, fallen riders, racetrack railings, stadium bleachers, track surface, and heavy frame borders from the film scan.
Film character: The clip has strong 8mm texture with soft focus, grain, purple color shift, exposure variation, and visible contact-frame borders.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quick incident insert, sports-history cutaway, risk beat, or abrupt transition in a sequence about racing or public events.
Historical context: The footage visually places horse racing within a public spectator venue, showing the hazards of mounted sport through amateur mid-century filming.
Research note: People and likely identifiable riders are visible, so likeness and event-context review may be needed in addition to copyright assessment.
Research search match: Search phrases might include 1949 Denver horse race fall, 8mm racetrack accident, vintage home movie horse racing, and mid-century sports footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1949 Denver footage, then broader vintage horse racing or stadium sports scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1949 Denver racetrack footage shows a distant horse and rider down near the inside rail beneath stadium bleachers. — A rider appears to be down on the track as the race continues in the distance.

A Denver horse race moment shows riders and horses clustered near the rail after an apparent fall, with bleachers behind them. — Riders and horses gather near the track rail during the accident sequence.

Two mounted riders race along the track in soft 8mm footage, with stadium seating blurred behind them. — Mounted riders move across the track during the short race sequence.

The 1949 Denver race footage shows horses and riders bunched together in a chaotic fall or near-fall on the racetrack. — Horses and riders bunch together during the accident at the racetrack.

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