Colorado USA-1973: Garden of the Gods Red Rock Formations

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

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Garden of the Gods Red Rock Formations — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 capturing the iconic red sandstone formations of Garden of the Gods in Colorado. The clip shows a wide, slightly shaky view of towering rock spires against a bright blue sky, with green trees and shrubs dotting the landscape below. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color saturation, and slight vignetting, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century American vacation feel. The camera pans slowly across the natural landmark, highlighting its dramatic scale and rugged beauty.

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: 120956258

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 home-movie clip can support archival requests for 1970s American vacation footage, public-landmark landscapes, and documentary cutaways of Garden of the Gods rock formations.
Period detail: The saturated color, handheld framing, rounded film gate edges, and 8mm texture support the supplied 1973 home-movie dating, while the visible landscape itself is a natural landmark rather than a time-specific built environment.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, with the camera lingering and panning across the sandstone spires as a traveler records the scale of the landmark from a scenic overlook or path.
What appears in frame: The frames show red sandstone rock fins, scrubby green vegetation, winding footpaths, blue sky, distant hills, and dark film-frame borders from the scanned 8mm source.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, mild vignetting, color saturation, and slight handheld instability that read as original physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel-memory cutaway, geography transition, or visual punctuation in a sequence about Colorado, road trips, national landscapes, or family vacation records.
Historical context: The scene reflects a 1970s tourist view of a well-known Colorado rock landscape, emphasizing natural scenery and recreational observation rather than a staged event or identifiable personal activity.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still evaluate copyright, location context, and any applicable property or park-use considerations separately from likeness clearance.
Research search match: Relevant search phrases include 1973 Colorado 8mm Garden of the Gods, vintage home movie red rock formations, 1970s Colorado vacation landscape, and archival footage sandstone spires.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado or Garden of the Gods material, and then with broader 1970s American road-trip, nature-landmark, or vacation landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing Garden of the Gods sandstone spires rising above green shrubs and winding paths under a blue sky. — Sandstone spires and paths at Garden of the Gods.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame with Garden of the Gods rock fins, low shrubs, scattered trees, and a bright blue sky in a handheld scenic view. — Rock fins dominate the scenic frame.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a closer visitor view of Garden of the Gods sandstone walls with brush, trees, and distant hills beyond. — Closer view of the red rock walls.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame of Garden of the Gods with a sandstone cliff face, winding path, dense shrubs, bare branches, and sky in a soft home-movie scan. — Sandstone face above shrubs and path.

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