Colorado USA-1973: Mountainous Terrain with Cable Car on Hillside

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

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Mountainous Terrain with Cable Car on Hillside — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado, USA, in 1973, showcasing a mountainous landscape with evergreen trees and rocky terrain. The clip features a panning shot that reveals a cable car or funicular system ascending a steep hillside, with a small structure built into the rock face. The film exhibits characteristic 1970s color saturation, grain, and slight fading, capturing a nostalgic outdoor scene of vertical transportation in a natural setting.

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: 120957246

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: This 1973 Colorado 8mm clip supports archive requests for 1970s mountain travel, scenic vertical transportation, and brief documentary cutaways of rugged Rocky Mountain terrain.
Period detail: The saturated color, handheld pan, visible film grain, and outdoor visitor viewpoint may show a typical early-1970s home-movie record of a mountain attraction or cable-car setting.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the informal feel of a visitor pausing to document the steep hillside, trees, rock face, and transport infrastructure rather than staging a composed scenic view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include evergreen trees, bare branches, steep rock formations, patches of snow or pale ground, outdoor lamps, cable or rail-like lines, and a small structure near the rocky slope.
Film character: The 8mm image carries pronounced grain, gate edges, color fading, uneven exposure, and handheld panning that give the scene a tactile home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, location transition, travel-memory beat, or cutaway establishing mountainous terrain and vertical transport in Colorado.
Historical context: The clip visually places leisure travel or sightseeing within a rocky Colorado mountain landscape, with human-made transport features set against evergreen forest and steep terrain.
Research note: People are flagged as visible, so likeness review may be needed, and the visible transport structure or built environment should be assessed separately from copyright status and general location use.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1973 Colorado 8mm mountain scenery, vintage cable car hillside footage, home movie rocky terrain, and 1970s evergreen slope travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Colorado 1973 travel footage, and then with broader 1970s mountain scenery or vertical transportation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Faded 1973 Colorado 8mm frame with pale tree branches, evergreen shapes, and rocky mountain terrain partially obscured by exposure and film edge artifacts. — Faded trees and mountain slope.
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1973 Colorado home-movie frame showing a steep rocky hillside with evergreen trees and a small dark structure or cable-car element near the upper slope. — Rocky hillside with trees and small structure.
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1973 Colorado 8mm frame with evergreen trees, an outdoor lamp, rocky terrain, and diagonal rail or cable-like lines running along the steep slope. — Trees and hillside transport lines.
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1973 Colorado home-movie frame showing evergreen trees, rocky hillside, outdoor lamps, diagonal transport lines, and a small person-like figure near the lower edge. — Rocky slope, lamps, and small figure.
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