Colorado USA-1973: Rustic Lodge at Cliff Base in Colorado

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

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Rustic Lodge at Cliff Base in Colorado — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from Colorado, USA, in 1973 captures a rustic lodge nestled at the base of a towering cliffside. The lodge features a dark wooden facade, stone pillars, and a snow-dusted roof, with red lanterns hanging from the eaves. A classic Jeep is parked in front, and the surrounding landscape includes evergreen trees and rocky terrain under a cool, blue-tinted light. The film exhibits natural grain and color shifts typical of home movie footage from the era, creating a nostalgic, immersive atmosphere of a winter mountain retreat.

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: 120958131

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s Colorado home-movie footage suited to documentary or editorial requests for a rustic mountain lodge beneath a rocky cliff in winter conditions.
Period detail: The vintage Jeep-like vehicle, 8mm color handling, lantern-style exterior details, and snow-dusted lodge architecture may show early 1970s leisure travel in a Colorado mountain setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on the lodge, cliff face, parked vehicle, snow, and surrounding evergreens rather than staging a formal property view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark wood lodge, stone pillars, red hanging lanterns, a snow-covered roof edge, a parked Jeep-like vehicle, evergreen trees, rocky cliff walls, and patches of snow on the ground.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries blue-shifted color, soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet edge artifacts that support its home-movie archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, winter mountain cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition into a lodge, road-trip, or Colorado landscape sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually suggests a small mountain retreat or roadside lodge at the base of a cliff, reflecting recreational travel imagery without confirming a specific property or landmark identity.
Research note: Rights review should consider visible private-property architecture, possible distant people or human figures, and the parked vehicle, while copyright, likeness, and property permissions remain separate clearance questions.
Research search match: Useful researcher searches might include 1973 Colorado 8mm lodge, 1970s mountain retreat home movie, snow-covered cliffside lodge, vintage Jeep outside rustic lodge, and Colorado winter travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Colorado 1973 travel footage, and then with broader 1970s mountain lodge, winter road-trip, or rustic vacation themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing part of a dark rustic lodge below a rocky cliff, with snow on the roof and red lanterns under the eaves. — Partial view of the cliffside lodge and snow-dusted roof.
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1973 Colorado home-movie frame of a dark wood lodge beneath a rocky cliff, with stone pillars, red hanging lanterns, snow, evergreens, and a parked Jeep-like vehicle out front. — Lodge facade with lanterns, snow, and a parked vehicle.
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1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a closer visitor view of the rustic lodge, including snow in front, stone pillars, red lanterns, dark siding, and the edge of a parked Jeep-like vehicle. — Closer lodge view with stonework and snow in front.
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1973 Colorado home-movie frame showing a sunlit rocky cliff face bordered by evergreen trees, with a dark shadowed foreground suggesting the surrounding mountain terrain. — Rock wall and evergreens near the lodge setting.
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