Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Dirt Road Through Rocky Canyon With Pine Forests Ahead

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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, showing a slow journey along a dirt road through a narrow mountain pass. The camera moves forward between towering rock formations and boulders, with dense pine forests lining the path ahead. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and natural color tones of the era, capturing a serene, nostalgic moment of a 1970s road trip through the Colorado wilderness.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorSlow motion
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120959486

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: This clip supports 1970s editorial requests for Colorado mountain road travel, wilderness access, and road-trip atmosphere in 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The soft color, 8mm frame weave, and vehicle-like forward movement may show a 1973 traveler’s view of an unpaved canyon road near Colorado Springs.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the unstaged quality of a passenger filming the route ahead during a quiet drive through rocky terrain.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pale dirt road, tall rock walls, scattered boulders, brush along the roadside, dark pine forest, distant hills, and overcast sky.
Film character: The clip carries period 8mm texture through visible grain, soft focus, muted color, slight exposure variation, and mild handheld or vehicle vibration.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel insert, transitional road beat, establishing cutaway, or memory fragment within a 1970s western United States sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects recreational travel through a rugged Colorado landscape without visible people, vehicles, signage, or developed infrastructure in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any location or property permissions should be reviewed separately from likeness concerns.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm dirt road, Super 8 rocky canyon drive, 1970s Colorado pine forest road, and home movie mountain pass footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1973 Colorado Springs travel footage, and then with broader 1970s mountain road or wilderness road-trip material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing a pale dirt road entering a rocky canyon with dark pine forest ahead. — Dirt road through a rocky canyon approach.

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame of an unpaved road bordered by tall canyon rocks with pine forest beyond. — Road bending between canyon rocks.

Soft 8mm frame from the Colorado Springs road sequence, with roadside rock close to camera and a pine-covered slope ahead. — Moving view past rock toward forest.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing the dirt road opening toward dense pine forest after passing rocky canyon walls. — Canyon road opening toward pines.

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