Colorado USA-1973: Horse And Carriage Roaming Through The Mountains

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

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Horse And Carriage Roaming Through The Mountains — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado USA in 1973 captures a colorful red and yellow horse-drawn carriage traveling along a dirt path through a forested mountain landscape. A dark horse wearing a blue blanket pulls the carriage, with passengers visible inside. The scene unfolds on a sunny day, showcasing the natural beauty of the Rockies with tall pine trees and a steep, eroded hillside. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering authentic archival footage of a nostalgic tourist attraction.

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: 120956746

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s Colorado travel, tourist attraction, mountain recreation, or western-themed documentary sequences needing authentic 8mm home-movie carriage footage.
Period detail: The red and yellow horse-drawn coach, casual visitor filming, saturated color, and 8mm texture support the stated 1973 home-movie context without identifying a specific attraction.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor perspective, watching a horse-drawn carriage pass below a forested roadside rather than presenting a formal performance view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a bright red and yellow carriage, a dark horse with a blue blanket, passengers or driver figures, dirt road, steep eroded hillside, pine forest, and 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, slight handheld framing, saturated color, and gate-edge artifacts that read as original physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, travel-memory beat, western tourism cutaway, or transition within a broader Colorado or Rockies home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects leisure travel and staged western-style transportation imagery in a mountain setting, while the exact venue and attraction remain unidentified from the frames alone.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed, while no logos, readable signage, private interiors, or clear branded property are apparent in these frames.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1973 Colorado 8mm horse-drawn carriage, vintage mountain tourist ride, Super 8 Rockies home movie, and western carriage travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1973 Colorado travel scenes, and then broader 1970s mountain tourism or horse-drawn carriage material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A red and yellow horse-drawn carriage travels along a dirt road beneath pine trees in Colorado home-movie footage from 1973. — Horse-drawn carriage below a wooded hillside.

The horse and colorful carriage continue along the dirt path, with small human figures visible near the coach against a forested mountain slope. — Carriage moving past the eroded roadside bank.

A visitor-shot 8mm frame shows the red and yellow carriage and dark horse below tall trees, with the road and hillside partly cropped by the film frame. — Carriage framed beneath tall pines.

The carriage and horse pass through the lower edge of the frame, with brush, pine trees, and a steep dirt bank filling the Colorado mountain setting. — Carriage passing through a wooded mountain setting.

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