Colorado USA-1973: Old Car On A Rainy Day In The Mountains

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

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Old Car On A Rainy Day In The Mountains — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado USA in 1973 captures a classic red sedan driving along a winding mountain road during a rainy day. The car navigates a wet asphalt road flanked by steep, rocky hillsides covered in dense evergreen trees. The overcast sky casts a cool, bluish-purple hue over the landscape, with visible raindrops on the lens and a damp road surface reflecting the gloomy light. The film exhibits characteristic grain and color saturation of 1970s Super 8 footage, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-specific 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: 120956722

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: Useful for 1970s Colorado travel, mountain-road driving, rainy-day road-trip, or period transportation inserts in documentary and editorial productions.
Period detail: The footage shows a 1970s-era red sedan on a wet mountain road, with the 1973 date and Colorado location supported by clip metadata rather than visible signage.
Home-movie behavior: The camera follows the car from a roadside or trailing travel perspective, giving the scene the unstaged feel of a family road trip through mountain terrain.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red sedan, wet asphalt, curving mountain road, rocky cut slopes, evergreen trees, distant hills, overcast light, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, cool color shift, handheld framing, and slight exposure variation that read as authentic home-movie film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel insert, rainy-road cutaway, mountain transition, or memory beat within a 1970s road-trip sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents private travel through mountainous Colorado scenery during the early 1970s, emphasizing road conditions and landscape rather than a named landmark or event.
Research note: No people, readable logos, or private property are visible, but copyright and any vehicle-identification or location-use questions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1973 Colorado 8mm mountain road, vintage red sedan rainy road, 1970s home movie car trip, and wet mountain highway footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then other 1973 Colorado travel footage, and then broader 1970s mountain-road or rainy road-trip scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

A red sedan drives away along a rain-darkened mountain road in Colorado, with evergreen trees, a rocky roadside slope, and soft 8mm film texture. — Red sedan on a wet mountain curve.

The red sedan rounds a damp mountain-road bend in Colorado, passing a steep rocky cut with trees and brush under cool overcast light. — Car rounding the rainy mountain bend.

A red 1970s-era sedan continues along a slick mountain road in Colorado, framed by a rocky hillside, roadside vegetation, and evergreen trees. — Sedan moving through wet mountain terrain.

The red sedan drives away on a wet Colorado mountain road, with forested slopes and hazy distant mountains visible through the cool-toned 8mm frame. — Road opens toward distant mountains.

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