Colorado USA-1973: A Platform Overlooks A Rocky Cliff With A Forest Sitting

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

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A Platform Overlooks A Rocky Cliff With A Forest Sitting — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado, USA, in 1973, showing a rugged mountain landscape. The clip features a steep rocky cliff face with a dense forest of coniferous trees, including pines, growing on the slope. A wooden platform or railing is visible in the lower right, suggesting a scenic overlook. The film exhibits characteristic 8mm grain, color shifts, and a purple-blue tint, with natural daylight illuminating the scene. The camera pans slightly, capturing the vastness of the natural environment.

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: 120957981

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 1970s Colorado 8mm nature footage for productions needing a brief archival cutaway of a rocky mountain cliff, conifer forest, and scenic overlook viewpoint.
Period detail: The visible 1970s clues are mainly the 8mm home-movie color response, handheld framing, and simple visitor overlook railing rather than any identifiable landmark or dated object.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on a steep rock face and trees from an overlook rather than staging people or action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a rugged cliff wall, evergreen trees, a sloped mountainside, pale daylight sky, a dark wooden railing or platform edge, and red railing details in the opening frame.
Film character: The footage has dense 8mm grain, purple-blue color shift, soft exposure variation, gate-edge darkness, and slight handheld movement that give it clear physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short scenic insert, travel-memory transition, or landscape cutaway between Colorado mountain or outdoor recreation sequences.
Historical context: The view reflects a leisure-travel encounter with a mountainous Colorado landscape, emphasizing overlook access and natural scenery without showing identifiable people, vehicles, or signage.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or location permissions should be reviewed separately because the exact site is not identified.
Research search match: Likely researcher matches include 1973 Colorado 8mm mountain cliff footage, vintage home movie conifer forest overlook, rocky slope scenic view, and Super 8 style western U.S. landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 Colorado travel footage, then broader 1970s mountain overlook, pine forest, and rocky landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a rocky cliff face, a tall conifer, and the edge of a dark wooden scenic overlook railing with red details. — Cliff face and overlook railing in a mountain setting.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame of a rugged rock wall and sunlit conifer with darker forest along the upper slope. — Evergreen tree against a rocky mountainside.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing conifer trees on a steep rocky slope, with pale daylight sky and a forested ridge above. — Conifers on a steep rocky slope.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame of a shadowed rocky mountainside with conifers rising toward a bright sky and forested upper ridge. — Shadowed cliff slope with conifers and sky.

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