Colorado Springs Colorado USA-1973: Scenic Drive Through Mountain Pass

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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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Scenic Drive Through Mountain Pass — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 showing a scenic drive through a forested mountain pass in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The view is framed by dark rock formations on both sides, revealing a winding road and rolling hills covered in sparse trees and brush. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight camera shake, with a purple-tinted sky suggesting overcast weather. The natural landscape features autumnal foliage and a sense of quiet exploration, capturing a nostalgic moment of mid-20th century Americana travel.

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: 120959117

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s 8mm home-movie footage suited to documentary or educational edits needing a brief mountain-road landscape view from Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Period detail: The 1973 date is supported by clip metadata, while the visible details are natural terrain, a narrow road, and the color-and-grain character of amateur small-gauge film rather than specific built-era markers.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves a traveler-shot perspective from within or near a moving vehicle, with the view briefly framed by dark rock walls as the camera looks out toward hills and trees.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark rock formations, a curving back road, rolling hills, sparse trees, brush, overcast sky, and uneven handheld framing.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, purple color shift, exposure falloff at the edges, and slight shake consistent with scanned home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short scenic insert, travel transition, road-trip cutaway, or reflective memory beat between broader Colorado or forest-exploration sequences.
Historical context: The footage documents a casual 1970s leisure-travel view of a mountain pass landscape, emphasizing roadside observation rather than a named landmark or public event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible in the supplied frames, but copyright status and any location or property permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm mountain road, vintage home movie forest pass, 1970s Colorado hills road footage, and Super 8 scenic drive landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs footage, then with broader 1970s road-trip, mountain landscape, forest, and home-movie travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame looking through dark rock formations toward a muted hillside, sparse trees, and an overcast purple-tinted sky. — Rock-framed view toward hills and sky.
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1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing a winding roadside view between shadowed rock edges, with brush, trees, and low mountain ridges beyond. — Roadside hills seen between rock edges.
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1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame of a curving road below sparse autumnal trees and rolling hills, with a dark rock face along the left side. — Curving road below sparse hillside trees.
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1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing a dark vertical rock edge beside a brushy hillside, scattered trees, and a pale overcast sky. — Brushy hillside beside a dark rock edge.
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