North Pole – Santa'S Workshop Colorado-1973: Costumed Santa Chatting With a White-Haired Man Outside a Log Cabin

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

Santa Claus
Christmas theme park
family vacation
1970s tourism
roadside attraction
conversation
older visitors

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · zoom
Setting: outdoor · Christmas-themed amusement park, outside a decorated log cabin
Time and weather: day · summer · overcast or shaded daylight
Lighting: soft, diffuse daylight
People: 4 · A man in a red Santa suit with a white beard, and a white-haired man with glasses in a white shirt and dark trousers; a woman in a red dress and a man in a checked shirt walk out of frame at the start.
Landmarks: North Pole – Santa's Workshop
Objects: log cabin · red shingled roof · purple gable with white trim · blue wooden door · elf figure above door · painted window shutters · red decorative panels · blue bench · door mat · handbag
Readable signs: SANTA'S
Colors: red · royal blue · purple · brown · white
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: High

Moments in the footage

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A Santa in a red suit talks with a white-haired man as two visitors walk out of frame.
The camera zooms in on the pair in front of the blue door.
The man in the white shirt gestures while Santa listens.
The camera eases back out to show the whole red-roofed cabin.

North Pole – Santa'S Workshop Colorado-1973: Costumed... — Clip Details

North Pole – Santa's Workshop in Cascade, Colorado, circa 1973 home movie footage shows a man in a full red Santa suit talking with a white-haired man in glasses, a white shirt and dark trousers. They stand on the pavement outside a log cabin with a bright red shingled roof, a purple gable and a blue door. A woman in a red dress and a man in a checked shirt walk out of frame at the start. It is one handheld Super 8 shot that zooms in slightly and then eases back out.

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: 800002482

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Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
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 – Santa's Workshop, 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 fits requests for 1970s American amusement-park or Christmas-attraction footage, especially a costumed Santa meeting visitors in summer.
Period detail: The visitor's white short-sleeved shirt and dark slacks, the woman's red dress and the saturated Super 8 colour may show an early-1970s date.
Home-movie behavior: A family camera caught an unposed moment: Santa and an older guest having an ordinary conversation away from the children's photo line.
What appears in frame: The frame holds a Santa in a red suit, a white-haired man in glasses, a red-shingled log cabin with a purple gable and a blue door, an elf figure over the doorway, painted shutters, and passing visitors.
Film character: The film has warm, dense reds and blues, a slight magenta cast, visible grain, soft focus and a gentle handheld zoom typical of amateur Super 8.
Edit role: Use it as a short cutaway or memory beat in a theme-park sequence, or as a light bridge into Christmas or vacation material.
Historical context: Santa's Workshop opened in 1956 at the entrance to the Pikes Peak Highway and drew summer tourists to a Christmas setting, which this clip shows.
Research note: Copyright in the home movie is separate from likeness rights for the identifiable visitor and the performer, and the park's privately owned buildings and decorative artwork may need their own permissions.
Research search match: Researchers might search for Super 8 Santa Claus 1970s, Santa's Workshop Colorado home movie, Christmas theme park vintage footage, or Santa in summer.
Archive pairing path: Pair it first with this reel's Santa with children, Old King Cole's Fun Castle and Family at the North Pole marker clips, then with its Pikes Peak summit shots, then with other Christmas-attraction footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Santa talks with an older visitor outside a red-roofed log cabin at Santa's Workshop, Colorado, circa 1973, as two tourists walk past — Santa chats with a visitor outside a log cabin at Santa's Workshop, Colorado, circa 1973.
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Zoomed view of a costumed Santa and a white-haired man in glasses talking by a blue cabin door, Colorado theme park, circa 1973 — The camera zooms in on Santa and the visitor in front of the cabin's blue door.
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An older visitor gestures while talking to Santa beneath an elf figure at Santa's Workshop near Pikes Peak, circa 1973 — The visitor gestures as he talks, with an elf figure perched above the doorway.
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Wide view of Santa and a visitor outside a decorated red-roofed log cabin at Santa's Workshop, Cascade, Colorado, circa 1973 — The camera pulls back to show the whole decorated cabin behind the pair.
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