Colorado USA-1973: Church On A Hillside

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

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Church On A Hillside — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado, USA, in 1973, showing a winding mountain road flanked by towering rock cliffs and evergreen trees under a deep blue tint. A small wooden cabin sits on the left, while a row of red and white bollards lines the road's edge. The scene transitions to a distant view of a white church perched on a hillside, surrounded by snow-dusted trees and rugged terrain. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a nostalgic winter atmosphere, capturing a serene, remote mountain landscape.

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: 120957143

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: 1970s Colorado 8mm mountain-road and hillside-church footage can support documentary inserts about rural travel, winter landscapes, or small religious buildings in the American West.
Period detail: The footage may show 1970s-era roadside infrastructure and home-movie travel framing, with red-and-white bollards, a narrow mountain road, and a distant white church visible in the scanned frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational quality of a traveler filming from a road or overlook rather than a staged scene, preserving a brief personal view of remote mountain scenery.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a curving mountain road, tall rock cliffs, evergreen trees, red-and-white roadside bollards, snow patches, a small dark cabin-like structure, and a white church on a hillside.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows heavy blue color shift, soft focus, film grain, gate edges, and slight exposure variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, transition, travel cutaway, or memory beat between mountain-road footage and a remote church setting.
Historical context: The imagery situates a small religious building and mountain road within a rugged Colorado landscape without supporting identification of a specific town, congregation, or landmark.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or location permissions should be reviewed separately before publication.
Research search match: Useful researcher searches include 1970s Colorado 8mm mountain road, Super 8 hillside church, vintage home movie winter road, and white church in rocky mountain landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Colorado 1973 travel footage, and then with broader vintage mountain roads, rural churches, snow-dusted trees, or American West landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a narrow mountain road below steep rock cliffs, evergreen trees, a dark structure at left, and red-and-white bollards along the roadside. — Mountain road below steep cliffs.

1973 Colorado home-movie frame of a blue-tinted mountain road bordered by rock walls, evergreen trees, red-and-white bollards, and a dark cabin-like form at left. — Roadside bollards in a rocky pass.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a cliff-lined road with evergreen trees, red-and-white bollards, a dark building edge, and small patches of snow. — Cliffside road with winter traces.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a distant white church on a hillside surrounded by evergreen trees, rocky ground, and snow-dusted terrain. — White hillside church among trees.

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