Colorado USA-1973: Red Car Drives Through Mountain Highway

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

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Red Car Drives Through Mountain Highway — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado USA in 1973, capturing a scenic mountain drive. The clip opens with sweeping views of forested mountains and rocky cliffs, shot from a moving vehicle. A classic red American muscle car appears, driving along a winding highway through dense pine forests under a bright blue sky. The film exhibits characteristic 8mm grain, color shifts, and motion blur, with a distinctive purple tint in the sky and clouds. This authentic archival footage evokes 1970s Americana and road trip nostalgia.

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: 120956379

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports requests for 1970s Colorado road-travel footage, scenic mountain driving, and archival Americana inserts for documentary or editorial productions.
Period detail: The red period automobile, two-lane mountain highway, and 8mm color home-movie stock support the 1973 metadata while the specific road or mountain pass is not identified in the frames.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the unstaged viewpoint of a passenger or roadside home-movie camera observing a car trip through forested mountain terrain.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a winding paved highway, rocky mountain slopes, dense evergreen trees, a red car, blue sky, bright clouds, and black frame borders from the film scan.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm archival texture through soft focus, visible grain, slight motion blur, uneven exposure, and a purple-blue color shift in sky areas.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief road-trip insert, scenic transition, travel-memory beat, or establishing cutaway for a 1970s mountain journey.
Historical context: The scene visually reflects private leisure travel through Colorado mountain scenery in the early 1970s without identifying a specific landmark or event.
Research note: Rights review should note possible occupants or people associated with the car, while no readable logos or private property are visible and copyright clearance remains separate from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1973 Colorado 8mm mountain highway, red car road trip home movie, 1970s American scenic drive, and vintage forest road footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1973 Colorado travel clips, then broader 1970s mountain-road or family road-trip material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a curving mountain highway below evergreen-covered slopes and exposed rock under a blue sky. — Mountain road below rocky Colorado slopes.

1973 Colorado home-movie frame with a red car traveling along a two-lane mountain highway beside pine forest and rocky hills. — Red car on a mountain highway.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing the rear of a red car on a winding highway through dense evergreens and rocky mountain terrain. — Rear view of the red car on the winding road.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame focused on blue sky and large clouds, with the scan showing strong purple-blue color shift and soft film texture. — Clouds and blue sky with 8mm color shift.

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