Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: A Road Entering Dark Tunnel Dug Into The Rocky Cliff

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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 road leading into a dark tunnel carved into a rocky cliff face. The tunnel entrance is framed by rough, textured rock walls with patches of yellow-leafed trees on either side. The camera slowly moves forward, creating a sense of exploration as it approaches the dark, arched opening. The film exhibits natural grain, warm color tones, and slight motion blur typical of handheld Super 8 footage, evoking a nostalgic, retro atmosphere of mid-20th century American road travel.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120959445

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: Useful 1970s Colorado travel footage for documentary sequences needing a visitor-view approach to a dark road tunnel cut into a rocky cliff.
Period detail: The visible Super 8 color, handheld framing, and metadata-supported 1973 date place the scene in early-1970s amateur road-trip documentation.
Home-movie behavior: The camera advances toward the tunnel from a passenger or roadside viewpoint, preserving the exploratory feel of an unstaged home-movie travel moment.
What appears in frame: The frames show a dark arched tunnel mouth, rough cliff rock, a road or dusty approach, sparse yellow-leafed trees, shadowed recesses, and black film-edge borders.
Film character: Natural grain, soft focus, warm faded color, slight blur, and uneven exposure give the clip recognizable 8mm archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an insert, travel transition, suspenseful approach shot, or memory beat before entering a mountain road passage.
Historical context: The footage reflects mid-1970s leisure travel in the Colorado Springs area through a scenic rocky roadway, without enough visual detail to identify a specific landmark.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but location, copyright, and any roadway or property permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Researchers may find this under 1973 8mm Colorado Springs road tunnel footage, rocky cliff tunnel home movie, or vintage Colorado mountain drive approach.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 Colorado Springs travel views, then broader vintage road tunnels and rocky cliff driving footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing a dark arched road tunnel set into rough rock, with yellow-leafed trees and film borders visible. — Road tunnel in a rocky cliff face.

1973 Colorado Springs frame with the camera nearer to a shadowed tunnel entrance carved through a rocky cliff face. — Closer approach to the tunnel entrance.

Home-movie still from the 1973 Colorado Springs clip showing the road-level approach to a dark tunnel beneath jagged rock. — Tunnel portal beneath jagged rock.

Final 1973 Colorado Springs frame showing the dark arched tunnel entrance close up, surrounded by pale and reddish rock textures. — Close view of the shadowed tunnel mouth.

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