Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Car In A Downhill Mountain Road With Sand Pile

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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, capturing a scenic dirt road winding through a mountainous landscape. The clip features a prominent mound of loose sand and gravel on the roadside, surrounded by evergreen trees and a few yellow-leafed aspens, suggesting autumn. The mountains in the background display a distinct purple hue, likely due to film stock characteristics or atmospheric conditions. The camera moves steadily along the unpaved road, offering a nostalgic, first-person perspective of a rural drive. The image quality shows classic Super 8 grain and color saturation typical of amateur film from the era.

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: 120959583

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 home-movie road footage for productions needing an unpaved mountain-drive insert, rural travel transition, or period landscape cutaway.
Period detail: The clip shows a dirt mountain road, roadside sand or gravel pile, evergreen trees, yellowing aspens, and color-shifted 8mm imagery consistent with the supplied 1973 Colorado Springs metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the unstaged perspective of a passenger or driver filming from a moving car as it descends or follows a rough mountain road.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a winding dirt road, loose sand and gravel mound, rocky roadside cut, evergreen forest, yellow-leafed aspens, distant mountain slopes, and a pale sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, mild motion blur, handheld movement, and purple-blue color bias that add period home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel insert, establishing cutaway, transitional road beat, or memory fragment within a Colorado or mountain-road sequence.
Historical context: The view documents recreational or rural mountain travel around Colorado Springs through a small-gauge amateur camera without showing people, vehicles, buildings, or identifiable landmarks.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, brands, or private interiors are visible, but copyright status, location specificity, and any property or access rights should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm mountain road, vintage Colorado dirt road home movie, Super 8 mountain drive, autumn aspens roadside gravel, and downhill rural road footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs material, then with broader 1970s mountain roads, autumn aspens, and car-travel home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing a dirt mountain road, a mound of loose sand or gravel, evergreen trees, yellow aspens, and distant mountain slopes. — Dirt road beside a sand pile in mountain terrain.

1973 Colorado Springs frame from a moving car, showing an unpaved road edge, roadside gravel mound, mixed evergreen and aspen trees, and purple-toned mountains. — Roadside gravel mound with mountains behind.

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie still showing a closer view of a rocky sand pile beside a dirt road, backed by evergreen trees and mountain slopes. — Rocky roadside pile along the mountain road.

1973 Colorado Springs frame with motion blur from a moving car, looking along a dirt mountain road past a rocky roadside bank, trees, and distant slopes. — Motion-blurred descent along a dirt mountain road.

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