Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Jockeys Racing On Horseback At A Dirt Track

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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 horse race at a local racetrack. Riders in colorful silks and cowboy hats gallop on horses around the dirt track, with a covered grandstand and a distinctive building with a cupola visible in the background. The scene is filled with spectators, and the film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color saturation, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic, mid-20th century American sporting event.

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: 120958452

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: 1970s Colorado home-movie racetrack footage for productions needing a brief sporting insert, regional recreation cutaway, or period American crowd scene.
Period detail: The clip shows riders on a dirt track before a covered grandstand, with color film stock, casual spectator dress, and racetrack architecture consistent with the supplied 1973 Colorado Springs metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is the visitor-shot view of a live horse race, with the camera following fast-moving riders from the stands rather than staging the action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include jockeys on horseback, a dirt racing surface, rail fencing, spectators in a shaded grandstand, a cupola-topped building, trees, sky, and occasional motion blur from the passing horses.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries saturated color, soft focus, visible grain, gate-edge framing, and handheld tracking that give the race a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or memory beat for 1970s leisure, local sport, rodeo-adjacent culture, or horse-racing atmosphere.
Historical context: The scene documents public spectatorship around horse racing in Colorado Springs, showing riders, crowd seating, and track infrastructure without identifying a specific named venue or event.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed, while no readable logos or audible music are apparent and copyright clearance remains separate from any location or personal-rights assessment.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1973 Colorado Springs horse race 8mm, 1970s dirt track jockeys home movie, vintage American racetrack grandstand, and Super 8 horseback racing crowd.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 Colorado Springs material, then broader 1970s American horse racing, rodeo, fairground, or spectator-sport footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In the supplied 1973 Colorado Springs home-movie footage, jockeys on horseback race along a dirt track in front of a covered grandstand and a cupola-topped building. — Jockeys pass the grandstand at the dirt track.

Jockeys race on horseback along the rail at a Colorado Springs dirt track, with spectators in the grandstand and a red sign or banner visible in the background. — Riders move past spectators along the track rail.

The home-movie frame shows jockeys riding past a red sign or banner beside the grandstand, with the cupola-topped building and trees beyond the track. — The race pack passes a red trackside sign.

Fast-moving horses blur across the foreground as the camera follows the race past the rail fence, grandstand, trees, and cloudy sky. — Blurred riders pass the trackside rail.

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