Colorado USA-1973: A Couple Hiking Near Red Rock Crosses

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

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A Couple Hiking Near Red Rock Crosses — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado USA in 1973 captures a couple hiking through a rugged desert landscape. The scene features distinctive red rock formations, including a prominent spire, under a bright blue sky. Three wooden crosses stand on a hillside amidst green shrubs and trees. The couple, dressed in period-appropriate clothing, walks along a dirt path, with the camera maintaining a steady, slightly elevated view. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, color saturation, and a warm, nostalgic tone typical of 1970s amateur footage.

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: 120956141

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: This 1973 Colorado 8mm home-movie clip can support documentary or educational requests for 1970s outdoor travel, hiking, and red-rock landscape footage with visible hillside crosses.
Period detail: The clip may show early-1970s leisure travel through clothing scale, amateur 8mm color, and the visitor viewpoint on a rugged red-rock trail, while the crosses and landscape should not be tied to a named landmark without further research.
Home-movie behavior: The human value comes from a couple moving casually through the rocky path while the camera observes from a slightly elevated, visitor-shot position.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red sandstone spire, three wooden crosses on a hillside, two distant walkers, scrub vegetation, trees, boulders, a dirt path, and bright blue sky.
Film character: The footage has saturated 8mm color, soft focus, visible grain, slight frame-edge darkening, and steady amateur framing that gives it physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short scenic insert, travel-memory beat, outdoor transition, or cutaway establishing hikers in a Colorado red-rock setting.
Historical context: The scene reflects recreational travel and outdoor sightseeing in a dry western landscape, with religious cross markers visible as part of the photographed hillside environment.
Research note: People are visible at a distance and likeness review may be needed, and the crosses introduce religious-context sensitivity separate from copyright or property clearance.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1973 Colorado 8mm hiking footage, red rock crosses home movie, 1970s couple walking desert trail, and vintage western landscape Super 8.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Colorado 1973 outdoor travel footage, and then with broader 1970s hiking, red-rock landscape, or roadside-sightseeing material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing distant walkers on a rocky path below three wooden crosses and a tall red sandstone spire under blue sky. — Walkers approach hillside crosses below a red rock spire.

1973 Colorado home-movie frame with two distant hikers near three wooden crosses, low shrubs, rocks, and a tall red spire at the edge of the frame. — Distant hikers pass the crosses on the rocky hillside.

Soft 1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing distant walkers below three wooden crosses, with a red sandstone spire, shrubs, trees, and reddish boulders around the trail. — The couple remains small in frame below the hillside crosses.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame looking across a scrub-covered rocky hillside with clusters of boulders, trees, and a partial red rock formation along the right edge. — Rock formations and brush fill the closing landscape view.

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