Colorado USA-1973: A Red Car On A Winding Mountain Road Through Forested Hills

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

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A Red Car On A Winding Mountain Road Through Forested Hills — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado USA in 1973 captures a scenic road trip through forested mountain terrain. A red classic American car navigates a winding asphalt road, viewed from a moving vehicle with a slightly shaky, authentic home movie perspective. The landscape features dense evergreen forests covering steep hillsides under a partly cloudy sky, with natural daylight illuminating the vibrant red car and lush greenery. The film exhibits characteristic 8mm grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic 1970s road trip atmosphere perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or retro-themed projects.

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: 120956360

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: 1970s Colorado home-movie road footage suited to documentary or editorial requests for mountain travel, rural driving, and vintage American vacation imagery.
Period detail: The red car, 8mm color stock, and road-trip viewpoint may show early 1970s recreational travel through forested Colorado mountain terrain.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries the unstaged feeling of a passenger filming from a moving vehicle as another car follows the curve of a mountain road.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a winding asphalt road, a red car, forested hillsides, rocky mountain slopes, roadside guardrail, partly cloudy sky, and soft daylight.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, mild color shift, soft focus, handheld movement, and motion blur that preserve the texture of original home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel insert, road-trip transition, scenic cutaway, or memory beat between broader 1970s vacation scenes.
Historical context: The footage documents private leisure travel through a mountainous landscape, emphasizing automobile movement and scenic viewing rather than a public event or identifiable landmark.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible in the supplied frames, but copyright status and any broader location or vehicle-identification concerns should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1970s Colorado mountain road, 8mm home movie red car, vintage road trip forest hills, and Super 8 scenic driving footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Colorado 1973 travel material, and then broader vintage mountain-road or family road-trip footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a red car on a winding asphalt road beside forested mountain slopes under a partly cloudy sky. — Red car rounds a mountain road curve.

1973 Colorado road-trip frame with a red car near the right edge, a paved mountain road, dark evergreen hills, and cloud cover overhead. — Car exits the frame along the mountain road.

1973 Colorado 8mm view of a forested mountainside, rocky outcrops, and the edge of a winding paved road filmed from a moving car. — Forested hillside beside the road.

1973 Colorado home-movie frame showing the lower edge of a mountain road, dense tree-covered slopes, rocky patches, and bright clouds. — Roadside view of tree-covered mountains.

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