Colorado USA-1973: Riding On The Edge Of The Pikes Peak Toll Gate

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

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Riding On The Edge Of The Pikes Peak Toll Gate — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado USA in 1973 captures a scenic mountain road trip. The clip opens on the Pikes Peak Toll Gate booth with classic cars passing through, then transitions to winding asphalt roads carved along forested hillsides. A red car navigates sharp curves beside rocky cliffs and dense evergreen trees, showcasing the rugged beauty of the Colorado Rockies. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, color saturation, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic 1970s road trip atmosphere. This authentic archival footage is ideal for documentaries, travel narratives, or retro-themed projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120956352

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 1970s Colorado 8mm road-trip clip supports archival requests for Pikes Peak area travel, mountain driving, toll-gate arrivals, and Rocky Mountain vacation inserts.
Period detail: The Pikes Peak Toll Gate booth signage, roadside fee board, and visible cars may show early-1970s visitor infrastructure and automobile styling in Colorado mountain tourism.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective, moving from the toll gate to a winding mountain road as if recorded during a family or tourist drive.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the Pikes Peak Toll Gate booth, fee signage, forested slopes, rocky hillsides, curving asphalt road, roadside barrier, distant mountains, and a red car on the bend.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft handheld framing, visible grain, saturated color, slight motion blur, and contact-print density shifts that give the clip authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief arrival insert, travel transition, mountain-road cutaway, or memory beat in a sequence about Colorado vacation travel.
Historical context: The clip documents a roadside tourist route through forested Colorado mountain terrain without showing people or making claims beyond the visible toll gate and road setting.
Research note: Human review should note the readable Pikes Peak Toll Gate signage and public-location identifiers, while copyright, trademark, and location permissions remain separate clearance questions.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1973 Colorado 8mm Pikes Peak toll gate, vintage mountain road home movie, Rocky Mountain tourist drive, and red car on winding cliff road.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other footage from the same reel, then with Colorado or Pikes Peak material from 1973, and finally with 1970s mountain-road travel or national park style vacation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing the Pikes Peak Toll Gate booth with readable sign, windows, fee board, parked cars, and evergreen-covered hillside behind it. — Pikes Peak Toll Gate booth at the start of the mountain drive.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame looking along a winding mountain road bordered by rock cuts, dense evergreens, and a red car entering the curve at the right edge. — Red car on a winding road through rocky mountain terrain.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a winding paved road below dark forested hills, exposed rock faces, roadside brush, and soft home-movie motion blur. — Road curves along the mountain slope below forested cliffs.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame with a red car rounding a sharp paved curve beside roadside brush, rock walls, and evergreen-covered Colorado mountain slopes. — A red car rounds the curve on the mountain road.

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