Colorado USA-1973: Scenic Drive Through Forested Mountain Road With Power Lines

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

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Scenic Drive Through Forested Mountain Road With Power Lines — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from Colorado, USA in 1973 captures a scenic drive through a dense forest. The camera moves forward along a winding asphalt road bordered by tall evergreen trees and dry brush, with power lines and utility poles lining the route. The film exhibits a distinct purple color cast and grainy texture characteristic of 8mm home movies from the era. The perspective suggests the footage was shot from a moving vehicle, offering a nostalgic view of a quiet mountain road during a family vacation.

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: 120957016

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, and rural infrastructure requests needing authentic 8mm home-movie driving footage.
Period detail: The clip may show an early 1970s paved mountain road bordered by evergreen forest, dry roadside brush, wooden utility poles, and overhead power lines.
Home-movie behavior: The value is the unstaged traveler perspective from inside or near a moving vehicle, recording the road ahead as part of a vacation or scenic drive.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a winding asphalt road, evergreen trees, leafless brush, mountain slopes, utility poles, overhead wires, roadside shadows, and bright sunlit patches.
Film character: The footage has a soft 8mm home-movie texture with visible grain, gate edges, slight blur from vehicle motion, uneven exposure, and a pronounced purple color cast.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short travel insert, transitional road shot, regional establishing beat, or memory fragment between Colorado vacation scenes.
Historical context: The scene reflects small-scale automobile travel through a forested mountain setting, with rural electrical infrastructure visible alongside the roadway.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, though copyright status and any location or roadway permissions should be assessed separately from likeness concerns.
Research search match: Researchers may find this under 1970s Colorado 8mm mountain road drive, forest road with power lines, vintage home movie travel footage, or scenic rural highway cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with Colorado 1973 travel material, then with other vintage mountain-road or forest-driving scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a paved mountain road curving through trees with a utility pole and overhead power lines visible beside the route. — Forest road with utility lines along the shoulder.

1973 Colorado home-movie frame from a moving vehicle, looking ahead at a quiet paved road curving through a forested mountain area. — Roadway bending through dense roadside trees.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a shaded stretch of forest road, with trees and dry brush framing the view from a moving vehicle. — Shaded forest road seen from the vehicle path.

1973 Colorado home-movie frame with a sunlit paved road running through evergreens and roadside brush in a mountainous forest setting. — Bright patch of mountain road through evergreens.

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