Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: The Entrance Of The Miners' Nightmare

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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 dark, arched tunnel entrance carved into rough rock. The shot begins with a wide view of the rugged mountain face and slowly zooms in, revealing a wooden frame around the dark, ominous opening. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and natural lighting, capturing the eerie atmosphere of a mine entrance. This archival clip evokes a sense of mystery and nostalgia, perfect for historical or documentary projects.

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: 120959453

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: 1970s Colorado Springs 8mm footage suited to documentary or educational requests needing a brief exterior view of a dark mine-style tunnel entrance in a rocky setting.
Period detail: The warm color, 8mm texture, and simple visitor-shot zoom support a 1973 home-movie context, while the visible structure is a rough rock facade with a framed arched opening.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, holding on the entrance and moving closer as if documenting an attraction or landmark detail encountered during travel.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rough tan rock, a dark arched tunnel mouth, wooden side framing, a curved lintel, shadowed interior space, and narrow strips of surrounding cliff face.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, warm color bias, slight handheld instability, and uneven exposure that preserve the feel of a scanned home movie.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, ominous cutaway, location-establishing detail, or memory beat within a sequence about mines, tourism, or mountain travel.
Historical context: The scene visually reflects a 1970s visitor recording of a mine-themed entrance or rock-cut passage near Colorado Springs without establishing the exact site beyond the supplied metadata.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any location or property considerations separately from likeness clearance.
Research search match: Useful search phrasing includes 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm mine entrance, dark arched tunnel in rock, vintage home movie Colorado mine attraction, and Super 8 rocky tunnel opening.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs material, and then with broader mine, tunnel, mountain attraction, or roadside landmark footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing a dark arched mine-style entrance cut into rough tan rock with narrow wooden supports at the sides. — Arched tunnel entrance in rough rock.

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame with the camera closer to the dark arched tunnel mouth and its rough rock surround. — Closer view of the arched opening.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing the zoom moving in on a mine-style arched entrance, with wood framing and textured rock filling the edges. — Zoomed mine-style entrance detail.

Tight 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm view into the dark arched tunnel entrance, with the wooden frame and rough rock mostly cropped by the zoom. — Tight view into the tunnel mouth.

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