Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Drive Along A Dirt Road In The Mountains

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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 showing a scenic drive along a winding dirt road through the mountainous terrain of Colorado Springs, Colorado. The camera moves forward along the unpaved path, flanked by rocky slopes and dense evergreen forests with patches of yellow-leafed trees suggesting autumn. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural light, capturing the rugged beauty of the Colorado wilderness. This authentic archival clip evokes a sense of nostalgia and adventure from a bygone era of road trips.

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: 120959550

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 mountain-road home-movie footage suited to documentary requests for rural travel, scenic driving, or Rocky Mountain landscape atmosphere.
Period detail: The visible dirt road, soft 8mm color, and metadata-supported 1973 date place the clip in a period road-trip context without showing vehicles, signage, or identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The camera takes an unstaged forward-looking traveler perspective, recording the road and surrounding slopes as part of a personal mountain drive rather than a composed scenic survey.
What appears in frame: The frames show an unpaved mountain road, rocky hillsides, evergreen forest, yellow autumn trees, distant ridgelines, and the dark borders of the film scan contact sheet.
Film character: The footage has a soft 8mm texture with visible grain, mild color fading, slight blur from motion, and natural daylight exposure typical of home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short travel insert, transition between Colorado locations, or memory beat suggesting a mountain drive in the early 1970s.
Historical context: The clip documents recreational movement through mountainous Colorado terrain, with autumn foliage and an unimproved road suggesting a local or visitor road-trip view of the landscape.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable signs are visible in the supplied frames, though copyright and any location or land-use permissions should still be reviewed separately from likeness or trademark concerns.
Research search match: Likely researcher searches include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm mountain road, vintage Colorado dirt road drive, 1970s Rocky Mountain home movie, and autumn mountain travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs mountain footage, and then with broader 1970s scenic driving or rural road material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing a dirt road entering rocky mountain terrain with evergreen forest and muted autumn color. — Dirt road through rocky mountain terrain.

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame looking ahead along a winding dirt road between rocky hillsides and mixed forest. — Winding dirt road between rocky hillsides.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing the road area and surrounding rocky slopes, evergreen trees, and a rounded mountain ridge. — Rocky slopes and trees along the road.

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame looking down a dirt mountain road with yellow autumn trees and a steep rocky ridge beyond. — Road descending past autumn trees and a rocky ridge.

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