Colorado USA-1973: Scenic Mountain Valley With Winding Road And Trees

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

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Scenic Mountain Valley With Winding Road And Trees — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado USA in 1973, showcasing a scenic mountain landscape with a winding road cutting through a valley. The clip features scattered evergreen trees, rocky hillsides, and a small white vehicle driving along the road. The final frame offers a dramatic close-up of a gnarled tree clinging to a rugged cliff face under a pale blue sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, color saturation, and a slightly faded quality characteristic of 1970s home movies. This authentic archival material captures a nostalgic moment of American nature and travel.

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: 120956184

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 Colorado travel, landscape, and American road-trip sequences needing authentic 8mm scenic mountain-valley footage.
Period detail: The visible period detail is mainly the 1973 home-movie color stock and a small light-colored vehicle on a winding road, with no readable signs, landmarks, or dated objects visible.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the observational feel of a traveler filming scenery from an overlook, lingering on the valley before cutting to a closer view of a weathered tree on rock.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a winding paved road, scattered evergreen trees, open valley ground, rocky hillsides, a small white vehicle, reddish stone, pale sky, and a gnarled cliffside tree.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, slight color fade, and handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture from the early 1970s.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a scenic insert, road-trip transition, nature cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a Colorado or western United States sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents recreational viewing of mountain scenery and roadside landscape in Colorado without showing identifiable people, signage, businesses, or public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible in the provided frames, but copyright, location identification, and any property or park permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1973 Colorado 8mm mountain valley road, Super 8 western landscape, vintage home movie evergreen hillside, and gnarled tree on rocky cliff.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 Colorado travel footage, and then broader 1970s American mountain-road and scenic nature material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado home-movie frame looking over a mountain valley with a winding road, open ground, scattered evergreens, and a rocky hillside beyond. — Winding road through a tree-dotted mountain valley.

1973 Colorado scenic view with a road curving through a landscaped mountain valley, scattered evergreen trees, and a small light-colored vehicle on the road. — Small vehicle on a curving valley road.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a closer view of a tree-dotted valley, brushy hillside, and a road crossing near the bottom of the frame. — Tree-dotted valley and road below the hillside.

1973 Colorado home-movie close view of a weathered, gnarled tree rooted beside rugged reddish rock, with branches and pale blue sky behind it. — Weathered tree clinging to a rocky cliff face.

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