Colorado Springs Colorado USA-1973: Winding Trail up Grassy Hillside

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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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Winding Trail up Grassy Hillside — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 showing a winding dirt trail ascending a sparse, grassy hillside in Colorado Springs. The view, framed by a dark border suggesting a window or car interior, captures a natural landscape with scattered evergreen trees and leafy green shrubs under a pale blue sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, conveying a nostalgic, personal journey through the rugged terrain. The camera moves steadily forward along the trail, offering a first-person perspective of the scenic, rural environment.

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: 120959131

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

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 footage suited to documentary requests for first-person travel, rural road movement, or mountain foothill landscape inserts.
Period detail: The clip may show early 1970s leisure travel through a sparsely developed hillside area, with era evidence coming mainly from the 8mm source, dated metadata, soft color, and handheld moving viewpoint.
Home-movie behavior: The camera records an unstaged forward-moving view along a dirt trail, suggesting a passenger or visitor documenting a scenic outing rather than a formal landscape survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a winding dirt road, dry grassy slopes, scattered evergreen trees, leafy shrubs, pale blue sky, clouds, and dark frame edges from the filming setup.
Film character: The footage has a 1970s 8mm home-movie texture with visible grain, soft focus, color shift toward purple-blue tones, uneven exposure, and slight motion blur from movement.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short travel insert, transition into a mountain setting, cutaway for rural Colorado terrain, or memory beat within a road-trip sequence.
Historical context: The view reflects a personal record of outdoor travel in the Colorado Springs area, emphasizing undeveloped hillside terrain and roadside vegetation without showing people or buildings.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or identifiable private property are visible in the supplied frames, but users should still review copyright status and any location-specific property or access concerns separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1973 8mm Colorado Springs dirt road, 1970s home movie mountain trail, Super 8 hillside travel footage, and vintage Colorado rural landscape cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs travel footage, and finally with broader 1970s home-movie road, hill, and outdoor landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame looking toward a winding dirt trail below a sparse grassy hillside with scattered evergreens and a pale sky. — Dirt trail below a sparse hillside.
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1973 Colorado Springs frame showing the forward view along a curving dirt road through shrubs and sparse evergreens on a dry hillside. — Curving road on the hillside.
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1973 Colorado Springs home-movie still with a dirt road bending past leafy shrubs beneath a sparse rocky hillside and scattered trees. — Road bend beneath rocky slope.
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1973 Colorado Springs frame with a darker moving view along a dirt road lined by trees and shrubs beneath a blue, clouded sky. — Tree-lined trail under clouds.
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