Colorado Springs Colorado USA-1973: Aspen Trees Sway in Wind Along Mountain Road

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationColorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 · Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
StatusDirect License

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Aspen Trees Sway in Wind Along Mountain Road — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 capturing a scenic, unimproved dirt road winding through a mountainous forest in Colorado Springs. Tall aspen trees with vibrant yellow and green foliage sway in the wind, their white trunks contrasting against the dark evergreens. A rocky cliff face rises in the background under a cloudy sky, with natural light casting a soft, nostalgic glow. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, travel content, or nostalgic projects.

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: 120959400

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: 1973 8mm home-movie footage of a mountain dirt road near Colorado Springs can support documentary requests for 1970s travel, landscape, forest, or regional atmosphere inserts.
Period detail: The visible period detail is primarily the 8mm color home-movie look rather than dated objects, with no vehicles, signage, clothing, or built structures visible in the frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor perspective, holding on a roadside mountain view as trees move in the wind and the road curves out of sight.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an unimproved dirt road, aspen-like trees with green and yellow foliage, dark evergreens, a rocky ridge, cloudy sky, and wind-blown branches.
Film character: The footage has saturated 8mm color, soft focus, visible grain, slight frame instability, and contact-print edge darkness that gives it a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a scenic cutaway, travel transition, memory beat, or quiet establishing insert for Colorado mountain terrain.
Historical context: The scene documents a 1970s leisure or travel view of wooded mountain terrain without showing people, development, traffic, or identifiable public landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private interiors are visible, but users should still assess copyright status and any location or land-use concerns separately from likeness or trademark issues.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm forest road, 1970s Colorado mountain home movie, windy aspen trees dirt road, and vintage scenic Rocky Mountain road footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1973 Colorado Springs or Colorado travel footage, and then with broader 1970s mountain road, forest, wind, and home-movie landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 8mm Colorado Springs footage showing an unimproved dirt road curving through green and yellow trees beneath a rocky mountain ridge. — Mountain dirt road with trees and rocky ridge.
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1973 8mm Colorado Springs view of a tree-lined unimproved road, dark evergreens, lighter deciduous trees, and a rocky outcrop under cloud cover. — Tree-lined road below a rocky outcrop.
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1973 8mm Colorado Springs footage with wind-blown roadside trees, a pale dirt road, evergreen forest, and rocky hillside in the background. — Roadside trees moving in mountain wind.
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1973 8mm Colorado Springs scenic frame showing an unimproved road bordered by green and yellow trees with dark evergreens and rocky slopes beyond. — Unimproved road through wooded mountain terrain.
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