New Mexico-1972: A Few Men Entering A Dark Maroon-Tinted Cave

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

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A Few Men Entering A Dark Maroon-Tinted Cave — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1972 captures a group of people exploring a dark cave in New Mexico. The footage, tinted in a distinctive maroon hue, shows individuals entering the cavern and walking through its narrow passages. The camera focuses on the rugged, textured rock walls and towering stalagmites, highlighting the natural formations. The grainy, low-light quality of the Super 8 film adds to the nostalgic, archival feel of this personal adventure.

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: 125777337

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: Useful for 1970s archive edits needing visitor-shot New Mexico cave exploration, underground travel, or home-movie natural-formation footage.
Period detail: The maroon-tinted 8mm look and simple visitor framing support the 1972 metadata, while the frames mainly show cave rock formations and small human figures.
Home-movie behavior: The clip appears unstaged, with travelers moving into a dim cavern while the camera records the cave walls and formations from a handheld visitor perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark cave openings, textured rock walls, pale stalagmite-like formations, small people near an entrance, heavy shadows, and maroon film coloration.
Film character: The footage has dense grain, low-light exposure, handheld framing, and a strong maroon cast that read as physical 8mm archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a cave-entry insert, travel-memory cutaway, underground transition, or brief atmospheric beat within a 1970s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects leisure travel or sightseeing in a cave setting, but the frames do not identify the specific cave, tour site, or people shown.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or private-property markers are visible, and copyright clearance is separate.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1972 New Mexico cave home movie, maroon-tinted 8mm cave footage, vintage cavern visitors, and 1970s stalagmite formations.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1972 New Mexico travel footage, then broader vintage cave, cavern, and road-trip home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 New Mexico 8mm frame showing small visitors near a cave entrance with maroon tint, shadows, and textured rock walls. — Visitors appear near a dark cave opening as the handheld camera catches pale formations and rough cavern walls.

Maroon-tinted 8mm view of tall cave formations in New Mexico, with rough stone texture and no clear people in this frame. — The camera lingers on tall pale formations rising from the cave floor against a shadowed rock wall.

1972 New Mexico home-movie frame focused on pale stalagmite-like cave formations, rough rock texture, and heavy maroon coloration. — Pale cave formations dominate the frame, recorded in low light with a strong maroon cast.

Maroon-tinted 8mm frame from a New Mexico cave visit showing two tall pale formations and shadowed rock surfaces. — Two tall formations stand out from the dark cavern surface in the final frame of the clip.

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