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Colorado Springs Colorado USA-1973: Car Driving Downhill Mountain Road Past Sand Pile

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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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Car Driving Downhill Mountain Road Past Sand Pile — 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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Topics & Keywords

  • road
  • sand
  • mud
  • tree
  • hill
  • grass
  • park
  • nature
  • car
  • downhill
  • mountain
  • colorado springs colorado USA
  • 1973
  • 1973 vintage home movie
  • Colorado Springs 8mm film
  • mountain dirt road
  • downhill drive
  • vintage Super 8 footage
  • classic film grain
  • retro nature scenery
  • 1970s Americana
  • old film footage
  • archival 8mm
  • mountain landscape
  • autumn trees
  • sand pile
  • unpaved road
  • vintage color film
  • nostalgic travel
  • retro documentary
  • classic home movie
  • 1970s film
  • Colorado mountains

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.

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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.

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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.

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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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