Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Riders And Horses Compete In Rodeo Arena

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

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Colorado Springs Colorado USA — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, in 1973, capturing a lively rodeo event under a bright blue sky. Riders in colorful western attire and helmets gallop on horses around a dirt arena, with spectators filling the covered grandstands. A distinctive building with a cupola and surrounding trees form the backdrop, while a tall stadium light pole stands on the right. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, saturated colors, and slight camera shake, offering authentic archival footage of mid-1970s Americana and community recreation.

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: 120958440

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 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: This clip supports archival requests for 1970s Colorado community recreation, rodeo coverage, horse events, and brief Americana inserts for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The covered grandstand, western riding attire, helmets, dirt arena, saturated color, and home-movie framing fit the supplied 1973 Colorado Springs rodeo context.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from the spectator side as riders pass through the arena, preserving a casual visitor-shot view rather than a staged sports record.
What appears in frame: Visible details include mounted riders, horses in motion, a dirt arena rail, spectators under a covered stand, a cupola-topped building, trees, blue sky, and a stadium light pole.
Film character: The footage has an 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, visible grain, saturated blues and reds, slight handheld instability, and contact-print edge artifacts.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short rodeo insert, regional recreation cutaway, transition into 1970s western leisure, or memory beat within a family or community sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a public riding event where spectators watch mounted competitors in a maintained arena, reflecting organized local entertainment and equestrian culture without identifying a specific venue.
Research note: People and faces are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed, while no readable logos or obvious private-property claims are visible in these frames.
Research search match: Useful researcher searches include 1973 Colorado Springs rodeo home movie, 1970s horse riders in arena, vintage 8mm western riding event, and spectators at covered grandstand.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1973 Colorado Springs material, then broader 1970s rodeo, horse show, county fair, or community sports footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In supplied 1973 Colorado Springs footage, mounted riders pass a dirt rodeo arena while spectators sit beneath a covered grandstand and a cupola-topped structure rises behind trees. — Mounted riders pass the grandstand during a rodeo event.

In the 1973 Colorado Springs rodeo scene, multiple riders in colorful attire move across the dirt arena with a shaded spectator stand, trees, and arena railings behind them. — Riders cross the arena before the shaded audience area.

The home-movie frame shows rodeo riders moving along the arena rail in Colorado Springs, with spectators under a long roof and a cupola-topped building visible above the trees. — Riders continue along the arena rail below the grandstand.

At the end of the clip, riders and horses appear across the Colorado Springs rodeo arena, framed by railings, shaded spectators, trees, and a small cupola structure in the background. — Riders spread out across the rodeo arena.

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