Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Old Video Of Someone Traveling On Old Dirt Road Through Forested Mountains And Tunnel

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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 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, showing a winding dirt road through a dense forested mountain landscape. The film captures a scenic drive with lush green and yellow-tinged trees on the slopes, a narrow unpaved path, and a dark tunnel carved into the rocky mountainside. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight camera shake, conveying a nostalgic, authentic 1970s travel experience. The natural textures of the forest and rock face are prominent, with the tunnel serving as a unique focal point.

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: 120959603

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 travel footage suited to documentary or museum sequences needing a visitor-level mountain road approach and tunnel cutaway.
Period detail: The 8mm color image, unpaved mountain road, forested slopes, and roadside tunnel match the supplied 1973 Colorado Springs travel context without showing signage or dated landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of a passenger-shot scenic drive, recording the approach to a mountain tunnel from a moving vehicle rather than a staged scenic composition.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pale dirt road, steep forested hillsides, green and yellow-tinged trees, rocky roadside cuts, a dark tunnel opening, and handheld framing from travel footage.
Film character: The footage carries soft 8mm color, visible grain, mild fading, gate edges, and slight handheld movement that give it clear physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel insert, road-trip transition, scenic cutaway, or memory beat before entering a mountain tunnel.
Historical context: The scene reflects recreational or local travel through a wooded mountain road environment near Colorado Springs, with the tunnel and rough road emphasizing a road-access landscape rather than an urban setting.
Research note: No people, minors, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or road-access restrictions should still be checked separately from likeness concerns.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm mountain road, Super 8 dirt road through forest, vintage Colorado tunnel drive, and home movie mountain travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 Colorado Springs travel footage, and then broader 1970s mountain road, forest drive, or tunnel approach material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing a pale dirt road below dark forested hills and roadside trees. — Mountain dirt road beneath wooded slopes.

1973 Colorado Springs travel footage frame with dark conifer-covered slopes, a road cut at left, and tall green trees near the roadside. — Forested slope along the mountain road.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame looking down an unpaved mountain road with trees and wooded slopes rising beyond it. — Unpaved road through wooded mountain terrain.

1973 Colorado Springs travel frame showing a dark tunnel opening carved into rock beside roadside brush and rugged stone. — Rock-cut tunnel entrance beside the road.

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