New Mexico-1972: Cave Interior with Rock Formations and Dark Figure

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationNew, Mexico
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1972 New Mexico

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Cave Interior with Rock Formations and Dark Figure — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1972, this vintage home movie captures a mysterious cave interior bathed in a deep maroon hue. The footage reveals rugged rock formations and stalactites, with a dark, shadowy figure partially visible in the center. The image is grainy and slightly blurred, characteristic of Super 8 film from the era. The scene evokes a sense of exploration and nostalgia, with the distorted color palette adding to its surreal, archival quality. This raw, unedited clip offers authentic vintage footage for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Interior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125777321

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1972 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: New, Mexico Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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: Helps solve requests for 1970s 8mm travel or exploration footage with an atmospheric cave interior for documentary, museum, or editorial use.
Period detail: The maroon cast, soft focus, visible grain, and contact-print look support the supplied 1972 home-movie context, though no clothing, signage, or landmark confirms a more specific setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a visitor filming briefly inside a cave, holding on rough rock shapes and a shadowy person rather than staging a formal scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include jagged cave walls, pale stalactite-like forms, dark recesses, a partially obscured human figure, strong maroon tint, and heavy film grain.
Film character: Dense grain, uneven exposure, color shift, and slight blur give the footage a physical 8mm texture consistent with scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, memory beat, or atmospheric cutaway for cave travel, subterranean exploration, or abstract archival sequences.
Historical context: The footage may show recreational cave visiting in New Mexico during the early 1970s, but the frames provide no confirmed landmark or event identification.
Research note: A person appears partly visible, so copyright status should be considered separately from likeness review and any location or property permissions.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1972 New Mexico 8mm cave interior, maroon tinted cave home movie, vintage cave exploration footage, and grainy Super 8 cavern cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with other 1972 New Mexico travel footage, then with cave, road-trip, geology, or abstract film-texture material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 8mm New Mexico cave interior with rough rock forms, pale hanging formations, and a partially obscured person in shadow. — Maroon-tinted cave interior with a shadowed human figure amid rough rock formations.

Soft 1972 8mm frame of a New Mexico cave interior, showing reddish rock texture and a partly visible person in a dark recess. — Soft, grainy view of cave rock with a dark figure partially visible in the center.

Grainy 1972 8mm New Mexico cave frame with jagged walls, bright mineral-like streaks, and a person partly hidden by shadow. — Jagged cave wall and pale formations surround a partly hidden figure in shadow.

Final 1972 8mm New Mexico cave view with heavy maroon color shift, rough stone surfaces, and a barely defined person in the center. — Heavily tinted cave interior with rough stone and a barely defined human figure.

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