Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Dark Green Trees Sky Cactus Plant Moving

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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 scenic drive through a forested mountain road. The clip features tall dark green trees lining a winding path under a dramatic blue and white sky, with a distinctive cactus silhouette visible against the horizon. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a nostalgic, slightly overexposed look characteristic of 1970s amateur footage. The perspective suggests movement from a vehicle, capturing the essence of a family road trip through the American Southwest.

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: 120959285

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 archival requests needing early 1970s 8mm travel footage of a Colorado mountain drive, forested roadside scenery, and Western landscape atmosphere for documentary or memory-based sequences.
Period detail: The 1973 date is supported by the supplied metadata, while the visible period clues are mainly the 8mm home-movie color palette, soft exposure, and handheld travel framing rather than identifiable buildings, vehicles, or fashions.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries the unstaged value of a traveler filming from a moving vantage point, alternating between roadside trees and distant ridgelines as part of a casual scenic outing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark tree-lined roadway or roadside vegetation, blue and white clouded sky, mountain ridges, a silhouetted cactus-like plant form, deep shadows, and a small bright patch that may be distant water or sky reflection.
Film character: The footage has a saturated blue cast, soft focus, uneven exposure, visible grain, and slight handheld or vehicle movement consistent with scanned 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel insert, road-trip transition, landscape cutaway, or reflective memory beat between family or regional Colorado scenes.
Historical context: The footage visually situates a 1970s amateur travel record in a mountainous Western landscape, emphasizing scenery and movement rather than documented public events or identifiable people.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible in the supplied frames, but copyright status and any location-specific permissions should still be reviewed separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Researchers might find this under searches such as 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm mountain drive, 1970s home movie forest road, Colorado mountain landscape home movie, or cactus silhouette sky travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs or Colorado travel clips, and finally with broader 1970s American road-trip and mountain-landscape home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm home-movie frame showing dark roadside trees and a soft, clouded blue sky from a moving travel perspective. — Roadside trees beneath a clouded sky.

1973 Colorado Springs travel frame with a cactus-like plant silhouette, dark mountain ridges, and a blue sky with layered clouds. — Plant silhouette and distant ridges.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing a dark ridgeline, a cactus-like silhouette, and a broad blue-and-white sky from a scenic travel viewpoint. — Dark ridge below a bright sky.

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame with a cactus-like plant silhouette at left, dark rolling hills, and a saturated blue sky with soft clouds. — Silhouette against hills and sky.

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