Colorado USA-1973: Chapel Amid Pine Trees With Cliff Behind

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

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Chapel Amid Pine Trees With Cliff Behind — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado, USA, in 1973, capturing a serene mountain landscape. The clip features a small white chapel nestled among tall evergreen trees at the base of a massive, sunlit cliff face. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and light leaks, with a strong blue tint and overexposed sky. The camera pans slowly across the scene, revealing the rugged terrain and deep shadows, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of a family vacation in the Rockies.

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: 120958243

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: 1970s Colorado 8mm home-movie footage suited to documentary or museum requests for Rocky Mountain travel, roadside scenic views, or a small chapel set below dramatic cliffs.
Period detail: The visible Super 8 color shift, handheld framing, and family-vacation viewpoint support the 1973 metadata while the scene itself shows evergreen trees, a white chapel, and pale rock formations without date-specific signage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on a scenic chapel and cliff rather than staging action, with any people only small and incidental in the landscape.
What appears in frame: Across the four frames the clip shows a small white chapel, dense pine trees, a bright cliff face, deep foreground shadow, pale sky, rocky terrain, and tiny distant visitors near the lower edge.
Film character: The 8mm scan has visible grain, blue color bias, contrasty shadows, overexposed highlights, and gate or frame-edge artifacts that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet scenic insert, location-establishing cutaway, travel-memory transition, or contemplative beat within a Colorado or mountain-vacation sequence.
Historical context: The footage reflects a private tourist view of Colorado mountain scenery in the early 1970s, emphasizing landscape, roadside visitation, and a chapel nestled against the rock face.
Research note: Review is advised for incidental people, possible religious-site context, and property or location identification, while copyright, likeness, and property permissions should be evaluated separately.
Research search match: Researchers might find this under 1970s Colorado 8mm mountain chapel footage, Super 8 Rocky Mountain travel scene, pine trees and cliff home movie, or small white chapel below rock face.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado mountain or chapel footage, and finally with broader vintage family-travel landscapes and evergreen cliff scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a small white chapel nestled in shadowed evergreens with a pale cliff rising behind it. — White chapel among pines below the cliff.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame with pine silhouettes, a bright rocky cliff, and a small white chapel set low in the landscape. — Pines and chapel beneath a sunlit rock face.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame emphasizing tall evergreens and a bright cliff face, with the chapel mostly obscured by trees and shadow. — Evergreens against the bright cliff wall.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a shadowed mountain scene with evergreen trees, a bright cliff, and small distant visitors near the lower edge. — Shadowed pines and distant visitors below the cliff.

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