Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: A Mountain Covered In Trees Changing

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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 capturing a rugged mountain landscape in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The clip shows a forested peak with a mix of evergreen and deciduous trees displaying early autumn colors, including yellow and gold foliage against dark green pines. The camera pans across the mountain, revealing a winding dirt road at the base and the natural, unspoiled terrain. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, characteristic of 1970s home movie footage. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into the natural beauty of the Colorado Rockies during the fall season.

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: 120959329

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 mountain view can support documentary or educational requests for early-1970s Rocky Mountain scenery, autumn forest cover, and non-urban travel footage.
Period detail: The visible period clues are mainly the home-movie film texture, muted color shift, and handheld framing, while the mountain road and forested slopes appear timeless rather than strongly date-specific.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, panning across a rugged wooded mountain landscape as someone records the scenery rather than a staged subject.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rocky ridges, pine-covered slopes, yellow autumn trees, a rounded forested peak, a winding dirt road, and open ground at the mountain base.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading toward purple and yellow, and handheld motion that gives the landscape an authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short scenic cutaway, travel-memory insert, regional transition, or quiet establishing beat for Colorado mountain terrain.
Historical context: The footage visually reflects recreational or family travel documentation of Colorado mountain scenery in the early 1970s without showing people, vehicles, buildings, or identifiable public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private structures are visible, but users should still assess copyright, location identification, and any property or land-use context separately from likeness clearance.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1973 8mm Colorado Springs mountain landscape, Colorado autumn forest home movie, Rocky Mountain wooded slope footage, and vintage scenic road cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Colorado Springs or 1973 Colorado travel footage, and then with broader vintage mountain, forest, autumn, and road scenery.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing a rugged rock ridge, dark conifers, and yellowing deciduous trees on a mountain slope. — Rocky ridge and autumn trees on a wooded slope.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing a rounded forested peak with dark pines and scattered yellow autumn trees beneath a pale sky. — Forested peak with early autumn color.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing a tree-covered mountainside with yellow autumn foliage, dark evergreens, open ground, and a road near the base. — Autumn forest slope and road below.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing a winding dirt road at the base of a forested mountain with evergreens and yellow autumn trees. — Winding road below a wooded mountain.

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