Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Boat Floating On Lake and Man With Camera In Rocky Terrain

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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, showing a small boat floating on a calm lake with ripples spreading across the water. The scene transitions to a man in a plaid shirt, sunglasses, and a ten gallon hat standing among large rocks and autumn foliage, holding a camera. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a nostalgic, authentic home movie aesthetic with natural lighting and a serene outdoor atmosphere.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120959363

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 Colorado home-movie footage suited to documentary or educational requests for quiet outdoor recreation, lake scenery, and amateur travel filming in the Rocky Mountain region.
Period detail: The plaid shirt, dark sunglasses, brimmed western-style hat, handheld camera, and faded 8mm color palette support an early 1970s home-movie setting without identifying a specific landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged family-travel value, moving from a distant boat on calm water to a posed adult holding a camera among rocks and brush.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small boat on rippled lake water, a shoreline bank, dark tree reflections, large rocks, autumn foliage, and a man with sunglasses holding a camera.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm grain, mild color shift toward blue and purple, rounded frame edges, and exposure variation consistent with scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief outdoor insert, a travel-memory transition, or a cutaway connecting lake recreation with tourist snapshot behavior.
Historical context: The material reflects casual 1970s outdoor leisure in Colorado Springs, with attention on scenery, boating, and amateur camera use rather than a staged public event.
Research note: A visible adult face and likeness should be reviewed separately from copyright status, while no logos, children, audible music, or clearly identifiable private property are visible in the supplied frames.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm lake footage, 1970s home movie boat on lake, man with camera rocky terrain, and vintage Colorado outdoor travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs footage, and finally with broader 1970s lake, outdoor recreation, and amateur travel-camera material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Small boat or skiff floating on a calm lake in 1973 Colorado Springs home-movie footage, with ripples spreading across blue-tinted water near a shadowed bank. — Boat on calm lake water.

A small boat remains centered on rippled lake water in Colorado Springs, with dark shoreline reflections and faded 8mm color visible around the frame edges. — Boat drifting near the bank.

Small boat floating on blue-shifted lake water in 1973 Colorado Springs footage, framed by a rough shoreline and soft home-movie grain. — Boat floating in lake frame.

Adult man in a plaid shirt, sunglasses, and brimmed western-style hat holds a camera among large rocks and autumn brush in 1973 Colorado Springs home-movie footage. — Man with camera among rocks.

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