Colorado Springs Colorado USA-1973: Colorful Sign for 33rd Pikes Peak Rodeo

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

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Colorful Sign for 33rd Pikes Peak Rodeo — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, showing a large, colorful sign for the 33rd Annual Pikes Peak Rodeo. The sign features a cartoon cowboy in a blue shirt and brown hat holding an open book-shaped sign with bold lettering. The scene is set outdoors on a sunny day with a clear blue sky, scattered clouds, and distant mountains. Classic American cars from the early 1970s are parked in the foreground, and multi-story buildings are visible in the background. The footage has authentic film grain, slight color fading, and natural camera movement, capturing a nostalgic moment of summer tourism and local entertainment.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120958294

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 Springs, 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 for 1970s Colorado Springs travel, tourism, local entertainment, or Western-themed event sequences needing a brief visitor-shot rodeo sign cutaway.
Period detail: The early-1970s setting is supported by the metadata, period automobiles, 8mm home-movie color, and the visible sign text for the 33rd Annual Pikes Peak Rodeo in August.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on a public event sign as a travel memory rather than staging people or action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the large Pikes Peak Rodeo sign, cartoon cowboy figure, parked early-1970s cars, multi-story buildings, blue sky, clouds, distant mountains, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The footage carries authentic 8mm texture with grain, slight color shift, soft focus, gate edges, and handheld framing that mark it as scanned physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, location transition, summer-tourism cutaway, or memory beat before rodeo, Colorado, or roadside-attraction material.
Historical context: The scene reflects a public-facing tourist and entertainment environment in Colorado Springs, with Western rodeo imagery framed against urban buildings, parked cars, and mountain scenery.
Research note: The sign artwork and readable event lettering may require review for copyright or trademark issues, while no people, faces, or private interiors are visible in these frames.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1973 Colorado Springs home movie, Pikes Peak Rodeo sign, 1970s Colorado tourism, vintage rodeo advertising, and 8mm Western event footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 Colorado Springs travel footage, then broader 1970s rodeo, mountain tourism, or roadside sign material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Mostly blank 8mm frame area with dark vertical gate edges and small film specks before the Colorado Springs rodeo sign appears. — Blank film lead-in frame with gate edges.
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1973 Colorado Springs view of a large 33rd Annual Pikes Peak Rodeo sign with a cartoon cowboy, parked cars, buildings, blue sky, clouds, and distant mountains. — Pikes Peak Rodeo sign outside in Colorado Springs.
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1973 Colorado Springs frame showing the Pikes Peak Rodeo or Bust sign with August dates, a cartoon cowboy, parked cars, buildings, clouds, and mountain backdrop. — Rodeo or Bust sign with August dates.
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1973 Colorado Springs frame of the 33rd Annual Pikes Peak Rodeo sign with cartoon cowboy artwork, parked cars, nearby buildings, trees, clouds, and mountains behind it. — 33rd Annual Pikes Peak Rodeo sign and parked cars.
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