Colorado Springs Colorado USA-1973: Winding Road Through Cliffs and Forest in Colorado Springs

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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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Winding Road Through Cliffs and Forest in Colorado Springs — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 capturing a scenic drive through Colorado Springs, Colorado. The clip shows a winding dirt road flanked by towering rock cliffs and dense forest, with a mix of evergreen and deciduous trees displaying early autumn colors. The camera moves steadily forward, offering a first-person perspective of the rugged mountain landscape. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic frame borders of Super 8 footage, evoking a nostalgic, authentic mid-1970s travel experience.

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: 120959505

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s 8mm travel footage for productions needing a moving point-of-view passage through wooded Colorado rock terrain.
Period detail: The clip may show a 1973 visitor-shot drive on an unpaved mountain road, with visible Super 8-era framing, muted color, and autumn foliage as period clues.
Home-movie behavior: The camera records the route from a traveler’s forward-looking perspective, emphasizing the experience of passing close to cliffs rather than a staged scenic view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dirt road, steep rock walls, evergreen and deciduous trees, pale tree trunks, brush, early autumn leaves, and dark frame borders from the film scan.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, slight color fading, uneven exposure, and gate-edge framing that preserve the texture of a scanned home movie.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short travel insert, route transition, landscape cutaway, or memory beat within a 1970s Colorado journey sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents recreational travel through a rugged wooded road corridor near Colorado Springs without visible people, vehicles, signage, or named landmarks in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but location identification and any copyright or property considerations should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm road footage, Super 8 mountain cliff drive, wooded dirt road home movie, and Colorado rock canyon travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1973 Colorado Springs travel material, and then with broader 1970s mountain road or forest landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs travel footage showing a dirt road at the base of rocky wooded terrain, with deciduous trees, evergreens, and autumn-toned brush. — Dirt road through wooded rock terrain.
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Close moving view of a rough rock cliff along the road in the Colorado Springs home-movie footage, with the frame dominated by textured stone and dark scan borders. — Rock wall close to the roadside.
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The camera passes a steep rock wall on a dirt road, with a tree trunk and wooded background visible in the 1973 Colorado Springs travel sequence. — Passing a tall cliff wall.
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A narrow road runs between steep rock formations and trees, with bright foliage and dark evergreens visible in the Colorado Springs 8mm travel footage. — Road between cliffs and trees.
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