Colorado USA-1973: A Beautiful Country Scene On A Bright Day

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

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A Beautiful Country Scene On A Bright Day — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado USA in 1973, capturing a serene mountain landscape under a bright blue sky with scattered white clouds. The view, framed by a dark border suggesting a window or projector, shows layered mountain ranges in the distance with green trees in the foreground. A classic lamppost and a corrugated roof appear in the lower frame, adding to the nostalgic, mid-century Americana feel. The film exhibits natural grain and slightly faded color saturation typical of 1970s home movies, evoking a sense of peaceful rural life and personal memory.

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: 120955706

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 1973 Colorado 8mm clip supports archival requests for 1970s American mountain scenery, rural travel atmosphere, and quiet landscape cutaways for documentary or memory-based edits.
Period detail: The footage may show a 1970s visitor view with faded color, a simple roofline, a lamp post, and distant mountain ridges rather than identifiable landmarks or dated public events.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged home-movie perspective, holding on a scenic mountain view as a traveler or family member records the surrounding landscape from a sheltered or framed vantage point.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include layered mountains, a bright blue sky with small white clouds, foreground trees, a corrugated roof edge, a dark frame border, a lamp post, and utility lines in some views.
Film character: The 8mm image has visible grain, soft focus, slight exposure fluctuation, and faded blue-purple color that read as authentic physical-film texture from a 1970s home movie scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief scenic insert, travel transition, establishing cutaway, or reflective memory beat between family or road-trip sequences.
Historical context: The view documents a personal encounter with Colorado mountain scenery in the early 1970s, emphasizing landscape, leisure travel, and vernacular home-movie observation without showing identifiable people.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but the roofline, lamp post, and possible built environment should still be reviewed separately from copyright and location/property considerations.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1973 Colorado 8mm mountain landscape, 1970s home movie mountain view, vintage Colorado valley scenery, and Super 8 rural travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with Colorado 1973 travel material, and then with broader 1970s American mountain, valley, road-trip, or nature-view home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing distant mountain ridges under a bright blue sky, with trees, a roof edge, and dark framing at the sides. — Mountain view with roofline and trees.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame of a mountain range and treetops seen through a dark border, with a small lamp post and roof edge in the foreground. — Framed mountain range and lamp post.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a broad mountain slope behind foreground trees, with a roof edge and dark framing visible along the lower and side edges. — Broad mountain slope beyond trees.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame of peaked mountain ridges under scattered clouds, with dark trees and a roofline anchoring the foreground. — Peaked mountain ridges under clouds.

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