Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Mountain Rock Formations and Pine Forests

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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 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, showcasing a dramatic mountain landscape with towering rock formations and dense pine forests. The scene captures the rugged beauty of the Colorado Rockies under a soft, overcast sky, with autumnal trees displaying hints of yellow and green. The film exhibits characteristic 8mm grain, slight color fading, and subtle camera movement, offering authentic archival footage of the region's natural scenery. This nostalgic clip is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or editorial projects exploring American landscapes.

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: 120959320

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 landscape clip supports archival requests for 1970s visitor-shot Rocky Mountain scenery, natural cutaways, and regional environment inserts.
Period detail: The frames show 8mm color home-movie texture and an undeveloped mountain landscape, while the 1973 Colorado Springs date and location are supported by the supplied metadata rather than visible signage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of a visitor pausing to record rock formations and pine forest from a scenic overlook or roadside viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rounded rock outcrops, steep cliff faces, dark evergreen pines, yellow-green autumn foliage, pale sky, and handheld reframing across the mountainside.
Film character: The footage carries soft 8mm grain, mild color fading toward purple tones, uneven exposure, and gentle handheld movement consistent with amateur home-movie filming.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief scenic insert, geographic transition, nature cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a Colorado or American West sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually documents recreational attention to Colorado mountain scenery in the early 1970s without showing people, vehicles, signage, or built infrastructure in these frames.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or brands are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any landscape or location-specific property considerations separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1973 8mm Colorado Springs rock formations, 1970s Colorado mountain home movie, pine forest cliffs, and vintage Rocky Mountain landscape footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs material, and then with broader 1970s mountain, forest, and American West travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing tall rounded rock formations rising behind dark pine forest and autumn-tinted shrubs under a pale sky. — Rock outcrops above pine forest.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame with a rocky mountainside, clustered evergreen pines, and small patches of yellow foliage beneath an overcast-looking sky. — Evergreens below rocky cliffs.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing a pine-covered slope beneath rounded rock formations, with yellow autumn trees and a large boulder in the foreground. — Pine slope and foreground boulder.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame looking across a forested slope toward a rounded cliff face, with evergreen pines and yellow-green trees in the lower frame. — Forested slope beneath cliff face.

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