Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Moving Through The Rocks Downwards At A

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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 showing a scenic drive through a narrow mountain pass in Colorado Springs. The camera moves forward along a winding road flanked by steep rocky cliffs and dense evergreen forests. The landscape features autumnal trees with yellow and green foliage under an overcast sky. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic frame borders of Super 8 footage, capturing a nostalgic, first-person perspective of a road trip through the Colorado wilderness.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorSlow motion
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120959222

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: Useful for 1970s-era documentary or education projects needing first-person 8mm road-travel footage through a rocky mountain pass in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Period detail: The 8mm format, faded color, visible frame borders, and metadata-supported 1973 date place the clip in an early-1970s home-movie travel context.
Home-movie behavior: The camera records an unstaged visitor-shot drive from inside or near a moving vehicle, emphasizing the experience of passing between steep rock walls and forested hills.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a narrow paved road, steep rock cuts, evergreen trees, yellow-green foliage, overcast sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, visible grain, muted color, slight exposure variation, and Super 8-style frame edges that give it clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel insert, road-trip transition, regional establishing cutaway, or memory beat between Colorado landscape scenes.
Historical context: The clip reflects recreational road travel through mountain terrain, with no visible people, vehicles, buildings, signs, or identifiable commercial markers in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private interiors are visible in the frames, but users should still verify copyright status and any location-specific property considerations separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1973 8mm Colorado Springs mountain road footage, vintage Rocky Mountain road trip, rocky pass driving view, and home movie Colorado landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with 1973 Colorado Springs travel scenes, and finally with broader vintage mountain-road or Western U.S. landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 8mm view in Colorado Springs showing a road entering a narrow rocky pass with evergreen forest and yellow-green foliage beyond. — Road approaching a rocky mountain pass.

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing a moving road view through steep rock cuts toward dense mountain trees under a pale sky. — Rock walls frame the road ahead.

8mm 1973 Colorado Springs travel frame with the road dropping through a narrow rocky passage toward mixed evergreen and yellow foliage. — Road descending through the rocks.

Faded 8mm frame from Colorado Springs in 1973 showing a roadway between dark rocky edges and a forested hillside under an overcast sky. — Forested slope beyond the rocky roadside.

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