Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: A Vehicle Travels Down A Rural Highway

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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 Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, in 1973, showing a vehicle traveling down a rural highway at dusk. The scene is framed by a dark border, with a narrow road flanked by dense coniferous trees under a dramatic purple and blue twilight sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, capturing the nostalgic atmosphere of a 1970s road trip through the Colorado wilderness. The camera appears to be mounted inside a moving vehicle, providing a steady forward-moving perspective.

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: 120959259

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 U.S. home-movie road travel, rural highway atmosphere, and documentary inserts needing a dusk driving view in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Period detail: The clip shows a low-light 8mm vehicle perspective with saturated blue-purple sky, dark tree silhouettes, and road-trip framing consistent with the supplied 1973 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage preserves an unstaged traveler’s forward view from inside or near a moving vehicle, emphasizing the ordinary experience of passing through a wooded rural road at dusk.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a narrow road, dense roadside trees, dark hills or treeline, layered evening clouds, blue-purple sky, heavy film-frame borders, and a small distant vehicle shape in later frames.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm texture through visible grain, soft focus, low-light exposure, saturated twilight color, and contact-sheet frame edges from the original film material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel insert, transition, road-trip cutaway, or reflective memory beat between broader Colorado or 1970s journey scenes.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for private automobile travel through a wooded Colorado-area roadway without showing identifiable people, businesses, or landmarks in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or obvious private property are visible in the sampled frames, but copyright status and location claims should still be reviewed separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Relevant searches may include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm road trip, rural highway at dusk, vintage home movie driving view, wooded roadway, and Super 8 travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs material, and then with broader 1970s road travel or rural highway sequences.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs-area 8mm frame showing a forward view down a dark rural road with dense trees and a saturated twilight sky. — Tree-lined rural road at dusk.

Forward-moving 8mm view of a wooded roadway near Colorado Springs in 1973, with the road mostly in shadow and a dramatic dusk sky above. — Wooded highway view beneath evening clouds.

1973 home-movie frame from a moving vehicle showing a narrow wooded road, dark roadside trees, and a small distant vehicle shape under the blue evening sky. — Roadway receding through trees.

Low-light 8mm frame of a Colorado Springs-area rural road in 1973, with trees framing the roadway and dusk clouds across a saturated blue-purple sky. — Dusk road framed by roadside trees.

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