Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: A Tunnel Followed By A Forest Covered Mountain Landscape

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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 Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, in 1973. The clip opens with a dark, shadowy tunnel view, transitioning to a scenic mountain landscape with a dirt road winding through a forested valley. The hills are covered in dense trees with patches of autumnal yellow and green foliage under a bright sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and natural camera movement, capturing a nostalgic, serene moment of travel through the Colorado wilderness.

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: 120959463

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 travel footage suited for documentary inserts about mountain road trips, western landscapes, or home-movie views of the Rocky Mountain region.
Period detail: The Super 8 color, handheld framing, and tunnel-to-roadside mountain view may show a 1973 visitor-shot travel moment near Colorado Springs without identifiable landmarks visible in these frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged traveler perspective, moving from a dark tunnel opening into a quick scenic look at forested slopes and a dirt road below.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a shadowed tunnel or covered passage, bright sky, wooded mountain slopes, autumn-yellow trees, a pale dirt road, rocky roadside banks, and open valley ground.
Film character: The footage has 8mm grain, soft focus, slight color shift toward blue-purple shadows, uneven exposure between tunnel and daylight, and natural handheld movement.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a transition from enclosed travel space to open mountain landscape, a brief scenic cutaway, or a memory beat in a road-trip sequence.
Historical context: The view reflects a private travel film record of Colorado mountain scenery, emphasizing landscape and movement rather than public events or identifiable social activity.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright and any location or property permissions should still be reviewed separately from likeness or trademark concerns.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm mountain road, Super 8 Colorado forested valley, vintage home movie tunnel exit, and 1970s Rocky Mountain travel landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs material, and then with broader vintage mountain travel, tunnel, forest, and roadside landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Shadowed 8mm view from inside a tunnel or covered passage near Colorado Springs, with daylight and a forested mountain slope appearing through the opening. — Tunnel interior opening toward mountain daylight.

Colorado Springs travel footage showing a bright roadside view of a forest-covered mountain, pale dirt road, rocky bank, and scattered yellow-green trees. — Mountain road and forested slope.

Vintage 8mm frame of a Colorado mountain landscape with a winding dirt road, wooded slope, open ground, and autumn-toned trees under bright sky. — Dirt road below wooded mountain slopes.

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie view of a forested mountain valley with a pale road, rocky roadside cut, scattered trees, and blue-shifted Super 8 color. — Forested valley and road from a moving viewpoint.

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