Colorado USA-1973: Winding Mountain Road Through Valley

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

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Winding Mountain Road Through Valley — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado USA in 1973, capturing a winding mountain road through a lush valley. The clip shows a white car driving along the paved road, surrounded by dense green trees, shrubs, and rocky hillsides. The natural landscape features rolling terrain with patches of grass and scattered evergreen trees under bright daylight. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics, including soft focus, subtle grain, and slightly faded colors, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-1970s Americana and outdoor travel. The perspective suggests a stationary view from an elevated position, possibly from a window or overlook.

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: 120956171

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: Useful for 1970s Colorado travel, road-trip, parks, mountain landscape, or rural Americana edits needing a brief scenic home-movie cutaway.
Period detail: The clip may show early 1970s leisure travel through a Colorado mountain valley, with the visible era clues limited to the 8mm color stock, soft exposure, roadside setting, and small passenger cars seen at a distance.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the unstaged feel of a traveler filming from an elevated overlook or window as cars pass through the valley below.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a winding paved road, distant white and red cars, green shrubs, scattered evergreen trees, grass patches, reddish rock outcrops, and wooded hillsides.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, muted color, light grain, slight gate framing, and contact-sheet edge artifacts that give the short view recognizable home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a scenic insert, road-trip transition, exterior establishing cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a sequence about mountain travel or Colorado landscapes.
Historical context: The scene reflects recreational automobile travel through a mountainous natural setting without showing identifiable people, buildings, signage, or specific landmarks in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible in the provided frames, but copyright, location, road access, and any property considerations should still be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1973 Colorado 8mm mountain road, vintage home movie valley road, Super 8 Colorado travel landscape, and 1970s car through mountain park.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado travel footage, and then with broader 1970s mountain road, park, valley, and automobile-travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a winding paved mountain road below an elevated viewpoint, with distant cars among green shrubs, grass, evergreen trees, and rocky slopes. — Cars move along a road through a green mountain valley.
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1973 Colorado 8mm frame with a curving paved road crossing a green mountain valley, bordered by shrubs, scattered evergreens, grass, reddish rocks, and small distant cars. — A road curves through shrubs and trees below rocky slopes.
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1973 Colorado 8mm frame looking down on a paved road through a green valley, with shrubs, evergreens, open grass, a rocky hillside, and a partially visible distant car. — An elevated view looks across the mountain road and valley vegetation.
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1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a curving valley road at the base of wooded hills, with a distant car, dense shrubs, grass, evergreens, and reddish rock formations. — A car appears near a curve in the mountain valley road.
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