Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Traveling Down A Forest Trail With Rocky Cliffs And Autumn Foliage

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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, Colorado. The camera moves forward along a winding dirt road flanked by steep rocky cliffs and dense evergreen forests. The landscape features lush green and yellow foliage, with a mix of pine trees and deciduous trees suggesting early autumn. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural film imperfections. The final frames capture a dramatic shift to a deep purple twilight sky, indicating the journey continues into evening. This authentic archival footage captures the quiet beauty of a 1970s road trip through the Colorado wilderness.

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: 120959231

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 8mm travel footage for productions needing a brief scenic road-trip view through a wooded Colorado mountain pass.
Period detail: The clip shows period home-movie color, soft exposure, and a visitor's moving-road viewpoint, while the 1973 Colorado Springs attribution comes from the supplied metadata rather than a visible date marker.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the unstaged feel of a passenger filming forward through a mountain road journey, holding on scenery rather than posed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rocky roadside cliffs, a narrow dirt or gravel road, evergreen and deciduous trees, autumn-toned foliage, distant ridgelines, and a purple-blue evening sky in the final frame.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries coarse grain, gate softness, slight fading, uneven exposure, and handheld travel motion that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel insert, road-trip transition, mountain cutaway, or reflective memory beat between family or landscape scenes.
Historical context: The view documents recreational or passenger travel through a forested mountain landscape near Colorado Springs without showing people, buildings, signage, or identifiable events.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible in the supplied frames, but copyright, location attribution, and any property access context should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1970s 8mm Colorado mountain road footage, Colorado Springs forest drive home movie, rocky cliff trail travel shot, and autumn foliage road-trip insert.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs material, and then with broader 1970s mountain-road, forest, and autumn travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing a forward road view between dark rocky cliffs, trees, distant wooded hills, and a pale overcast sky. — Road view through rocky forest terrain.

Colorado Springs 1973 travel frame looking ahead through a narrow rocky pass with evergreen trees, yellow-green foliage, and a low wooded ridge beyond. — Narrow pass with cliffs and trees.

Forward-facing 8mm frame from the Colorado Springs road trip showing a curving dirt or gravel road below steep rock, pine trees, and early autumn foliage. — Curving road below steep rock.

Final 1973 Colorado Springs frame showing the road continuing between dark forested slopes beneath a purple-blue evening sky with visible film color shift. — Evening sky over the forest road.

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