Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Old School Dark Desert Night Shoot

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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, capturing a dramatic desert landscape at night. The scene features a silhouetted saguaro cactus against a deep blue, cloud-streaked sky, with rolling hills in the foreground. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and a distinctive blue color cast, characteristic of vintage home movie film stock. The camera remains stationary, offering a contemplative view through a window frame, evoking a sense of quiet nostalgia and retro Americana. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects exploring 1970s home movies and desert landscapes.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120959291

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 home-movie landscape footage suited for documentary inserts, atmospheric transitions, or archive research needs around Southwestern travel, night exteriors, and amateur color film texture.
Period detail: The clip carries 1970s home-movie characteristics through its 8mm format, saturated blue color cast, soft exposure, and static scenic framing, while the visible landscape itself offers few date-specific clues.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in an unstaged amateur viewpoint lingering on a dramatic sky and silhouetted terrain, suggesting a traveler or family filmer recording atmosphere rather than an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a silhouetted cactus-like plant, dark rolling hills, a blue cloud-streaked sky, deep foreground shadow, narrow glimpses of water or pale ground, and black frame divisions from the contact sheet.
Film character: The footage shows dense 8mm grain, soft focus, heavy blue-purple color bias, underexposed shadow areas, and a mostly stationary camera that read as physical-film texture from a home-movie source.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, dusk or night transition, memory beat, or atmospheric insert between travel, desert, school-project, or 1970s home-movie sequences.
Historical context: The frames show a scenic nighttime or dusk landscape recorded as personal travel footage, with no visible people, signage, vehicles, or identifiable public events to support broader historical claims.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but location and plant identification should be reviewed cautiously and copyright clearance remains separate from likeness or property considerations.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1970s 8mm night landscape, blue desert sky home movie, silhouetted cactus hills, Colorado Springs archival footage, and vintage amateur travel scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other Colorado Springs or 1973 home-movie material, and then with broader 1970s travel, desert landscape, dusk sky, or amateur nature footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 8mm home-movie frame from the Colorado Springs metadata showing a cactus-like silhouette, dark rolling hills, and a blue-purple clouded sky at dusk or night. — Cactus-like silhouette against blue clouded hills.

Static 8mm frame with a cactus-like plant in silhouette, distant hills, and a saturated blue evening sky consistent with the Colorado Springs 1973 clip metadata. — Blue sky over silhouetted terrain.

1970s 8mm landscape frame showing a dark sloping foreground, cactus-like silhouette, low hills, and a blue-purple clouded sky with soft archival grain. — Sloping dark hillside below blue clouds.

Final 8mm frame in the clip with a cactus-like plant and ridgeline silhouetted against a heavily blue clouded sky, with no people or signage visible. — Silhouetted ridge and cactus-like plant.

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