Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Mountain Ride Across The World

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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 1973 capturing a scenic mountain drive through Colorado Springs, Colorado. The clip shows a winding road flanked by rocky cliffs and dense forest under a dramatic purple-hued twilight sky. The camera moves steadily forward, offering a first-person perspective of the journey. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and natural film artifacts, with a distinct purple tint characteristic of 1970s home movie film stock. The atmosphere is nostalgic and serene, evoking a sense of mid-century American road 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: 120959170

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: Archival 1970s 8mm home-movie footage suited to documentary or educational sequences needing a brief first-person mountain road travel view in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Period detail: The clip shows a 1973 home-movie perspective with visible period clues mainly in the 8mm color rendering, handheld framing, and in-camera travel viewpoint rather than identifiable vehicles, signs, or built landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the unstaged value of a traveler filming forward through a rocky mountain passage, recording the experience of the ride rather than a posed scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark rocky cliff faces, scrubby trees and brush, a pale purple-blue sky, a narrow pass or roadside cut, distant hills, and heavy black film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows pronounced grain, soft focus, slight underexposure, purple color shift, gate edges, and contact-sheet artifacts that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short travel insert, transition, memory beat, or atmospheric cutaway between scenes about road trips, mountain landscapes, or 1970s domestic travel.
Historical context: The view reflects leisure or transit filming in a mountainous Colorado setting, with the camera emphasizing landscape and movement rather than people, signage, or civic activity.
Research note: No people, logos, audible music, or clear private property are visible in the supplied frames, but copyright, location identification, and property-context questions should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm mountain drive, 1970s home movie rocky road pass, vintage Colorado travel footage, and Super 8 scenic road ride.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs or Colorado mountain footage, and then with broader 1970s road-trip and scenic travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 8mm home-movie frame from the Colorado Springs clip showing a dark mountain roadside with brush, distant tree line, and a purple-blue sky framed by black gate edges. — Mountain brush and sky at the start of the ride.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing the forward view into a rocky roadside cut with dark vegetation, uneven cliff edges, and a pale purple sky above. — Rocky roadside cut beneath a tinted sky.

1973 8mm travel frame from Colorado Springs showing close dark rock walls, scrub vegetation, and open sky from a moving visitor-shot perspective. — Close rock walls along the mountain route.

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing a narrow rocky passage, small trees, distant hillside, and purple-tinted sky as the camera continues forward. — Narrow rocky passage during the mountain ride.

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