Colorado USA-1973: Scenic Mountain Highway Drive with Guardrail and Rocky Slopes

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 Colorado

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Scenic Mountain Highway Drive with Guardrail and Rocky... — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado USA in 1973, capturing a scenic mountain highway drive. The clip shows a winding road with a metal guardrail along a steep, rocky hillside covered in sparse green shrubs and scattered pine trees. A yellow car is visible in the distance on the road. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color saturation, and slight motion blur, with a dark border framing the image. The camera moves steadily forward, offering a first-person perspective of a classic American road trip through rugged terrain under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120955269

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 1382 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: air force academy,cripple creek,cheyne zoo,broadmoor,#2
Reel-level year note: 1973
Reel-level location note: colorado springs
Date: 1973 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Colorado, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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: This clip supports 1970s American road-trip, mountain travel, and Colorado highway requests needing brief first-person scenic driving footage for documentary or editorial use.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, rounded dark frame edges, saturated sky, metal roadside guardrail, and distant yellow car are visible period clues consistent with the 1973 Colorado metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera records from a moving vehicle, giving the unstaged viewpoint of a traveler watching a winding mountain road and rocky slopes pass by.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a paved curving highway, metal guardrail, rocky cut slopes, sparse shrubs, scattered pine trees, blue sky, clouds, and a distant yellow vehicle.
Film character: The footage has a home-movie 8mm texture with soft focus, visible grain, mild exposure variation, saturated color, motion blur, and dark scan borders.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a road-trip insert, geographic transition, travel-memory beat, or cutaway establishing movement through rugged mountain terrain.
Historical context: The scene reflects leisure or travel filming from a vehicle on a mountain highway, with infrastructure and roadside landscape visible but no identifiable people or institutions shown.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private interiors are visible in the supplied frames, but copyright, location, and property considerations should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1970s Colorado mountain highway, 8mm road trip driving footage, vintage guardrail road, and home movie Rocky Mountain travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 Colorado travel footage, and then broader vintage mountain-road or American road-trip material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado 8mm frame from a moving vehicle showing a curving mountain highway, metal guardrail, rocky hillside, shrubs, pine trees, and a small yellow vehicle at the road edge. — Mountain highway bend with rocky slope and guardrail.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a forward view along a mountain highway with a metal guardrail, rocky slope, green brush, scattered pines, and bright sky. — Guardrail follows the curve of a rocky mountain road.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame with the moving camera passing a rocky roadside cut, sparse vegetation, metal guardrail, and the edge of a curving mountain highway. — Rocky roadside cut seen from the moving car.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame looking ahead on a winding mountain road bordered by a metal guardrail, rocky slopes, sparse shrubs, distant hills, blue sky, and clouds. — Winding highway continues through rocky mountain terrain.

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