Colorado USA-1973: Red Sandstone Formations in Garden of the Gods

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

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Red Sandstone Formations in Garden of the Gods — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado USA in 1973 captures the iconic red sandstone formations of Garden of the Gods under a bright blue sky. The distinctive spires rise dramatically above green shrubbery, with a lone figure visible on a rock ledge, emphasizing the scale of the natural landscape. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: warm color saturation, slight grain, and soft focus, with a subtle camera pan across the scene. This authentic archival footage evokes mid-20th century Americana and outdoor adventure.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120955859

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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: Useful for 1970s Colorado travel, public-land recreation, or natural-landscape archive requests needing real 8mm home-movie views of red sandstone formations and visitor scale.
Period detail: The clip shows period home-movie color, soft handheld framing, and outdoor sightseeing imagery consistent with the supplied 1973 Colorado metadata, with no visible vehicles, signs, or clothing details to independently date the scene.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective, panning across large sandstone spires while a small person on a rock ledge gives the scene informal scale rather than staged presentation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include red sandstone fins, scrubby green foreground vegetation, blue sky, small clouds, a tiny person on a rock ledge, and dark film-frame borders from the scan.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries warm color saturation, moderate grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and gate edges that support its physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, scenic cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition into a Colorado outdoor recreation sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects a domestic sightseeing encounter with a recognized Colorado red-rock landscape, emphasizing leisure travel and landscape scale without making claims about a specific event.
Research note: A person appears small in the landscape, so likeness review may be needed, while no logos, readable signage, private interiors, or branded objects are visible in these frames.
Research search match: Searches this may match include 1970s Colorado 8mm red rock formations, Garden of the Gods home movie, vintage Colorado landscape footage, and Super 8 sandstone spires.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado or Garden of the Gods material, then with broader vintage western U.S. sightseeing and red-rock landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing red sandstone spires and green foreground vegetation under a bright blue sky, with a tiny person visible on a rock ledge. — Sandstone spires above the shrub line.
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1973 Colorado home-movie frame with clustered red sandstone fins, scrub vegetation, blue sky, and a small distant figure on the rocks for scale. — Clustered red rock formations in daylight.
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1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a broad red sandstone wall at left, jagged spires beyond it, green shrubbery, and a distant person on a rock ledge. — Large rock wall with spires beyond.
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1973 Colorado frame with a close sandstone face at left, red rock spires to the right, dense green shrubs below, and a small distant person on the rocks. — Red rock spires framed by foreground cliff.
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