Colorado USA-1973: Rocky Mountain Landscape with Trees

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

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Rocky Mountain Landscape with Trees — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado, USA, in 1973, showcasing a rugged mountain landscape with rocky slopes and scattered evergreen trees. The film exhibits classic Super 8 color saturation with a distinct blue sky and warm earth tones, captured through a handheld camera with natural film grain and slight vignetting. The sequence transitions from a close-up of a forested cliff face to a wider view of the mountain range, offering a nostalgic glimpse of the American West. This authentic archival footage is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, and retro-themed content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorHandheld
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120957804

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s Colorado 8mm home-movie mountain scenery suited to documentary inserts, regional archive sequences, education programs, or productions needing period outdoor landscape coverage.
Period detail: The frames may show a 1973 visitor-filmed view of Colorado mountain terrain, with no visible vehicles, people, signage, or built landmarks to narrow the period beyond the supplied home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged traveler perspective, lingering on rocky slopes and evergreen trees from a handheld vantage point rather than presenting a planned scenic survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include steep rock faces, scattered evergreens, dry grass or scrub, a saturated blue sky, dark film-gate edges, and a shadowed roadway or overlook structure in the final frame.
Film character: The 8mm image has pronounced grain, warm earth color, saturated blue response, soft focus, handheld framing, and heavy edge vignetting that preserve the texture of a physical home-movie scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short scenic cutaway, regional establishing insert, travel-memory beat, or transition between Colorado outdoor sequences.
Historical context: The footage reflects a private 1970s leisure-viewing record of the American West, emphasizing rugged mountain scenery without visible commercial tourism markers or identifiable people.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private property are visible in the supplied frames, but copyright, location identification, and any property concerns should still be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1973 Colorado 8mm mountain view, 1970s home movie rocky slopes, vintage Colorado landscape footage, and Super 8 evergreen cliff scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Colorado 1973 travel footage, then with 1970s American West mountain landscapes or vintage outdoor nature cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a rocky mountain slope with scattered evergreen trees, dry scrub, blue sky, and dark gate edges from the home-movie scan. — Rocky Colorado slope with scattered evergreens.
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1973 Colorado home-movie frame with a sunlit rock face, sparse evergreens, warm dry hillside tones, saturated blue sky, and pronounced dark vignetting. — Sunlit rock face and trees beneath blue sky.
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1973 Colorado 8mm frame widening to show rugged cliffs, scattered evergreens, dry mountain slopes, blue sky, and handheld home-movie framing. — Wider view of cliffs and evergreen-covered slopes.
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Blue-tinted 1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a shadowed mountain road or overlook structure between rocky slopes, with pale ground, rail-like edges, and dark film borders. — Shadowed mountain roadway or overlook in blue-tinted exposure.
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