Bandelier National Monument New Mexico-1958: Boy in Striped Shirt Climbs a Wooden Ladder to a Cliff Cave Doorway

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationBandelier National Monument, New Mexico, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 · Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

childhood exploration
family vacation
ancestral Pueblo heritage
national monuments
1950s travel
climbing
American Southwest

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · tilt
Setting: outdoor · Pale, pitted cliff face with a ladder leading up to a dark cave-room doorway, with small green shrubs at the base
Time and weather: day · summer · dry, fair
Lighting: soft, even daylight, likely open shade
People: 1 · One boy, seen only from behind, wearing a purple-and-white striped short-sleeved T-shirt and dark high-waisted trousers
Landmarks: Bandelier National Monument cliff dwellings
Objects: wooden ladder · cave doorway · cliff face · small round hole in rock · shrubs
Colors: pale grey · violet · black · white · tan
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Medium
Location confidence: High

Moments in the footage

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The boy grips the lower rungs, with the ladder rails and a small hole in the cliff above him.
The camera tilts up and the dark cave-room doorway fills the top of the frame.
He climbs higher and nears the threshold of the opening.
He braces on the top rung and leans toward the cave room.

Boy in Striped Shirt Climbs a Wooden Ladder to a Cliff... — Clip Details

Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico, circa 1958 home movie footage. Seen from behind, a boy in a purple-and-white striped T-shirt and dark trousers climbs a wooden ladder set against a pale, pitted cliff face toward a dark cave-room doorway. The handheld camera tilts upward as he climbs and follows him rung by rung until he reaches the threshold and leans toward the opening. Shot on 8mm color film in soft daylight, with visible grain and slightly soft focus.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800001383

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Minors are visible. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip, and a sensitive-use review is recommended.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: Yes
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1958 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: Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico, United States 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Fits a request for circa-1950s color footage of visitors at Southwest cliff dwellings, for documentaries on national monuments, family travel or childhood.
Period detail: The boy's striped knit T-shirt and high-waisted dark trousers may show typical late-1950s children's casual wear, and the 8mm color rendition matches film of that era.
Home-movie behavior: A parent films the child from below as he scrambles up the ladder, catching an unposed moment of a kid eager to get inside the cave.
What appears in frame: A boy in a striped shirt, a ladder with pale rails and wooden rungs, a pitted cliff wall, a dark doorway into a cave room, a small round hole in the rock and green shrubs at the base.
Film character: Fine 8mm grain, gentle softness and muted violet-and-grey color give the handheld upward tilt an authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: Works as a short insert or memory beat in a Bandelier sequence, or as a transition from the entrance sign to the cave interiors.
Historical context: The ladder-reached cavates along Frijoles Canyon's Main Loop Trail were part of the visitor experience once a road into the canyon opened in the mid-1930s.
Research note: The minor is seen only from behind and is unidentified; likeness and parental consent are separate from film copyright, and filming at a federal site may raise its own location questions.
Research search match: boy climbing ladder Bandelier 1950s, 8mm home movie cliff dwelling New Mexico, Frijoles Canyon vintage footage, child exploring cave room archival film
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's Bandelier entrance sign and San Ildefonso Indian Pueblo sign clips, then with other circa 1958 northern New Mexico footage, then with archival footage of children exploring historic sites.

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Boy starts climbing a ladder against the cliff at Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico, circa 1958, in 8mm home movie — A boy grips the lower rungs of a ladder at the Bandelier cliff dwellings, circa 1958.
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Dark cave-room doorway above a climbing boy at a Frijoles Canyon cliff dwelling, Bandelier, New Mexico, circa 1958 — The camera tilts up as the boy climbs toward a cave-room doorway in Frijoles Canyon.
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Boy nears the threshold of a cliff dwelling at Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico, circa 1958 family trip film — Nearly at the threshold: the boy climbs the last rungs below the cave opening.
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Boy leans into a cave room at the top of a ladder, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico, circa 1958 8mm color film — At the top rung, the boy leans toward the dark cave room at Bandelier, circa 1958.
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