North Pole Colorado-1973: Blond Boy Posing Beside a Giant Snowman Figure as Visitors Stroll Past

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationNorth Pole, Colorado, United States
Duration4s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 · North Pole, Colorado, United States
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What is in this clip

childhood
family vacation
amusement parks
Christmas imagery in summer
1970s fashion
tourism
posing for the camera

Shot type: medium
Camera: static · handheld
Setting: outdoor · Shaded dirt plaza in a Christmas-themed amusement park among pine trees, with colourful peaked-roof buildings and a sandwich stand
Time and weather: daytime · summer · dry, with sunlight filtered through trees
Lighting: Natural daylight under tree shade, with high contrast between dark background and bright white figure
People: 7 · A blond boy in a white, yellow and navy shirt with dark trousers poses in the foreground; behind him a dark-haired girl, a woman carrying a white sweater, a man in a white T-shirt holding a small child's hand, and a girl in pink walk past.
Landmarks: Santa's Workshop amusement park
Objects: giant snowman figure · blue top hat · red awning · sandwich stand · pine trees · low concrete curb · blue-roofed building
Readable signs: SANDWICHES
Colors: white · blue · yellow · red · brown
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: High

Moments in the footage

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A blond boy leans against the giant snowman as a woman walks in the right background.
A woman carrying a white sweater crosses the plaza behind the figure.
A man in a white T-shirt leads a small child past, with a girl in pink beside them.
A dark-haired girl walks off to the left while the boy keeps posing.

Blond Boy Posing Beside a Giant Snowman Figure as... — Clip Details

At North Pole – Santa's Workshop in Colorado, circa 1973, home movie footage shows a blond boy standing close beside a large white snowman figure with a blue top hat and a painted face. Behind them, visitors in flared trousers cross a dirt plaza: a dark-haired girl, a woman carrying a white sweater, and a man in a white T-shirt leading a small child. Pine trees shade a blue-roofed building and a red awning marked SANDWICHES. The single handheld shot is held at eye level on Super 8 colour film.

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: 4s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800002479

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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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Date: 1973 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: North Pole, Colorado, 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: This clip suits requests for early-1970s family-holiday footage at an American theme park, for documentaries, museum loops or nostalgic commercial montages.
Period detail: Flared trousers, a colour-block children's shirt and the warm Super 8 colour may show an early-1970s date, which fits the 1971 plaque filmed elsewhere on the same reel.
Home-movie behavior: A parent asks the boy to stand by the snowman for a souvenir shot, and he grins self-consciously while strangers walk through the background, unaware they are being filmed.
What appears in frame: A blond boy in a yellow-banded shirt, a large snowman figure with a blue top hat, a red awning marked SANDWICHES, a blue-roofed building, pine trunks and visitors crossing a dirt plaza.
Film character: Handheld Super 8 with visible grain, soft focus, deep shadow under the pines and a white figure close to blowing out, which gives the clip a strong period home-movie feel.
Edit role: Works as a short memory beat or cutaway inside a road-trip or childhood sequence, or as a light transition between holiday scenes.
Historical context: The scene shows a Christmas-themed roadside park, open since 1956 near the Pikes Peak Highway, drawing summer families in casual 1970s clothes.
Research note: The film's copyright is separate from the likeness rights of the identifiable boy and passers-by, and the park's sculpted figures and buildings may raise property or design questions, so assess each before use.
Research search match: Searches this clip matches include Super 8 boy with snowman at an amusement park, 1970s Santa's Workshop Colorado home movie, and early-1970s family vacation theme park footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with Old King Cole's Fun Castle, Family at the North Pole marker and the Santa clips from this reel, then the Pikes Peak summit sign shots, then other 1970s theme park home movies.

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Blond boy beside a giant snowman figure at Santa's Workshop, North Pole, Colorado, circa 1973, Super 8 home movie — A boy poses beside the park's giant snowman as a visitor walks past on the right.
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Woman in flared jeans crossing a park plaza behind a boy and snowman, Santa's Workshop, Colorado, circa 1973 — A woman carrying a white sweater walks behind the boy and the snowman figure.
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Visitors and children walking past a giant snowman at a Colorado Christmas theme park, circa 1973, Super 8 film — A man leads a small child across the plaza while the boy stays by the snowman.
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Girl in flared trousers walking past a boy and giant snowman at Santa's Workshop, Colorado, circa 1973 — A dark-haired girl walks off to the left as the boy keeps posing.
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