Colorado USA-1973: A Highway Runs Through A Forest At The Base Of A Mountain

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

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A Highway Runs Through A Forest At The Base Of A Mountain — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado, USA, in 1973, showing a winding road through a dense forest at the base of a rugged mountain. The scene is captured with a distinct purple color cast, likely due to film stock or lighting conditions, with tall pine trees lining the pavement. Utility poles and wires run alongside the road, and the camera moves forward, creating a sense of journey through a remote, natural landscape. The image exhibits classic film grain and slight motion blur, characteristic of handheld Super 8 footage from the era.

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: 120957059

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: This 1973 Colorado 8mm clip can support documentary or educational requests for 1970s mountain-road travel, rural highway approaches, and home-movie views of forested Western landscapes.
Period detail: The narrow paved road, roadside utility poles, simple guardrails, and visible film color shift may show a 1970s tourist or family-travel view rather than a formally composed scenic record.
Home-movie behavior: The forward-moving camera gives the scene the unstaged value of a traveler looking through a windshield or from a moving vehicle while entering a mountain forest road.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a winding paved road, pine trees, rocky mountain slopes, utility poles and wires, roadside railings, patches of snow, and a strong purple-blue film cast.
Film character: The footage carries a physical 8mm home-movie texture with grain, soft focus, slight motion blur, gate edges, uneven exposure, and color fading that reads as archival film character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel transition, regional establishing insert, road-trip cutaway, or quiet memory beat between more specific Colorado or mountain footage.
Historical context: The clip documents a roadside view of mountain transportation infrastructure and forested terrain without showing identifiable people, vehicles, signs, or named landmarks in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but users should still verify copyright status, location identification, and any property or roadway permissions needed for their use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1970s Colorado 8mm mountain road, vintage home movie forest highway, Super 8 road through pine trees, and archival Rocky Mountain travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado travel footage, and then with broader mountain-road, forest, highway, and family road-trip material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a paved road through tall pines at the base of rocky mountain slopes, with utility poles and a purple-blue film cast. — Road entering a forested mountain pass.

1973 Colorado home-movie frame looking along a quiet paved road bordered by pine trees, utility poles, and steep rocky mountain terrain. — Roadside poles below mountain ridges.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame of a curving mountain road with pine trees, roadside railings, utility lines, and small patches of snow near the forest edge. — Curving road with snow near the shoulder.

1973 Colorado home-movie frame showing a paved road passing under dark tree branches toward forest and rocky mountain faces, with utility poles along the roadside. — Road continuing under trees toward mountains.

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