Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Riding By A Car On A Dirt Road

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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 car driving down a narrow dirt road flanked by tall trees with green and yellow leaves. The view is from inside a moving vehicle, with a dark frame border visible. The sky is overcast with a distinct purple-pink hue, and the film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color shifts. A dark car is visible ahead on the road, creating a sense of motion through a rural, natural landscape. The footage captures the nostalgic feel of a 1970s family road trip.

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: 120959275

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: This 1973 8mm Colorado Springs road-view clip helps satisfy archival requests for 1970s rural travel, family road-trip perspective, or vehicle-mounted movement through a wooded dirt road.
Period detail: The narrow unpaved road, dark vehicle ahead, and color-shifted 8mm stock may show a 1970s home-movie travel view in or near Colorado Springs without identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The value is the unstaged passenger perspective from a moving vehicle, recording ordinary travel through a tree-lined landscape rather than a posed destination scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dirt road, tall trees with green and yellow foliage, an overcast purple-blue sky, a dark car ahead, heavy film borders, and motion-softened roadside branches.
Film character: The clip has pronounced 8mm grain, soft focus, gate edges, slight exposure variation, and purple-blue color drift that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, travel transition, memory beat, or point-of-view cutaway for a 1970s road trip or rural approach sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually situates everyday car travel within a wooded Colorado landscape, emphasizing unpaved roads and seasonal foliage rather than documented public events.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable property identifiers are visible, but copyright and any location or property permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm road trip, 1970s home movie dirt road, car driving through trees, and Super 8 rural travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 Colorado Springs travel material, then broader 1970s home-movie road and landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 8mm Colorado Springs travel footage showing a narrow dirt road between tall trees, with a dark car ahead and visible film gate borders. — Passenger view down a wooded dirt road.

A moving 8mm view along a wooded dirt road near Colorado Springs, with dense trees, muted sky, and a dark car ahead in the lane. — Car ahead on the tree-lined road.

The 1973 home-movie frame shows the vehicle ahead closer on the unpaved road, framed by tall green and yellow trees and 8mm edge shadows. — Vehicle closer on the wooded dirt road.

A passenger-view 8mm frame of the wooded Colorado Springs road as it bends ahead, with thick trees, purple-blue sky, and no people visible. — Road bends through dense roadside trees.

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