North Pole Colorado-1973: Santa Claus Walks With a Group of Children Past a Panda Trash Bin

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationNorth Pole, Colorado, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 · North Pole, Colorado, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

Santa Claus
childhood
family vacation
Christmas in summer
amusement parks
1970s fashion
tourism

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · pan
Setting: outdoor · Christmas-themed amusement park among pine trees, with log buildings and a gravel walkway
Time and weather: midday · summer · sunny
Lighting: bright direct sun with dappled pine shade, high contrast
People: 9 · A man in a Santa Claus suit and about eight children, mostly boys and one girl in front, in shorts, T-shirts and tube socks
Landmarks: Santa's Workshop North Pole
Objects: Santa suit · paper cup with straw · panda-head trash bin · blue barrel · log building · white bag · pine tree trunks
Colors: red · yellow · white · navy blue
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: High

Moments in the footage

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Santa holds a paper cup beside a log building as children gather by a panda trash bin.
Santa starts walking forward with the children around him.
The camera follows the group past pine trunks.
Santa and the children step toward the camera and out to the right.

Santa Claus Walks With a Group of Children Past a Panda... — Clip Details

North Pole – Santa's Workshop amusement park, Colorado, circa 1973, home movie footage. A man in a Santa Claus suit, holding a paper cup with a straw, walks forward from a log building with a red roof while a group of children in summer clothes moves along beside him. A girl in a striped top and yellow shorts and a blond boy in a color-block shirt keep pace past a panda-head trash bin and pine trunks. The scene is filmed in one handheld Super 8 shot in bright sun and dappled shade.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800002483

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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: 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 serves requests for 1970s family tourism or Christmas-attraction footage that shows Santa among children in summer, for documentaries, exhibits and nostalgia pieces.
Period detail: The clip shows flared trousers, striped tube socks, plaid shorts, color-block and striped tops, and warm saturated color rendition consistent with 1970s film stock.
Home-movie behavior: The children move around Santa without posing for the camera, which gives an unstaged, visitor's-eye view of a summer park day.
What appears in frame: Santa holding a paper cup, a panda-head bin on a blue barrel, a log building with a red roof, a blond boy in a color-block shirt, a girl in yellow shorts and pine trunks.
Film character: Hard sunlight, deep shadows, rich reds and yellows, visible grain and a gently handheld frame give a characteristic Super 8 summer texture.
Edit role: Use it as a memory beat or cutaway in a holiday or roadside-attraction sequence, or as a lively insert after a park establishing shot.
Historical context: Santa's Workshop opened in 1956 near the Pikes Peak Highway, and this clip shows its Santa meeting summer visitors in the 1970s.
Research note: The film's copyright sits with the archive, but the identifiable children and the costumed Santa performer raise likeness concerns, and the park setting and panda bin may involve property or design rights.
Research search match: Researchers would find it under searches such as 'Santa with kids in summer 1970s', 'Super 8 Christmas theme park' or 'vintage North Pole Colorado home movie'.
Archive pairing path: Pair it first with Santa chatting outside his log cabin, Boy beside giant snowman figure, Old King Cole's Fun Castle and Family at the North Pole marker, then with the Pikes Peak summit clips, then other Santa or theme-park footage.

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Santa Claus with children at Santa's Workshop, North Pole, Colorado, circa 1973, beside a panda-head bin — Santa holds a drink as children gather by a panda-head trash bin, circa 1973.
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Santa walking with 1970s-dressed boys at a Colorado Christmas amusement park, circa 1973 — Santa sets off with a group of boys in T-shirts and shorts.
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Children in 1970s summer clothes walk beside Santa at Santa's Workshop, Colorado, circa 1973 — A girl in a striped top carries a white bag as the group moves with Santa.
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Santa and a group of children step toward the camera at North Pole, Colorado, circa 1973 — Santa and the children step toward the camera past the pines.
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