Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Driving In The Summertime On A Dirt Road

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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 through the Colorado mountains. The camera moves forward along a winding dirt road surrounded by dense trees with vibrant yellow and green autumn foliage. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and subtle camera shake typical of handheld Super 8 footage. The landscape features rugged mountain slopes under a bright blue sky, capturing a nostalgic summer road trip atmosphere. This authentic archival clip offers a glimpse into mid-1970s American countryside travel.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Handheld
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120959631

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: Useful for 1970s editorial or documentary requests needing an in-motion rural mountain road view in Colorado from amateur 8mm travel footage.
Period detail: The clip may show a 1973 home-movie view of an unpaved mountain road near Colorado Springs, with no visible vehicles, signage, buildings, or identifiable landmarks in the sampled frames.
Home-movie behavior: The forward-moving camera gives the unstaged viewpoint of a traveler filming the road and surrounding mountains from inside or near a moving vehicle.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a winding dirt road, dense trees, yellow-green foliage, rocky mountain slopes, bright sky, and dark contact-sheet film borders.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight fading, handheld vibration, and uneven exposure that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel insert, rural road transition, scenic cutaway, or reflective memory beat between Colorado or mountain-trip scenes.
Historical context: The scene documents leisure travel through a wooded mountain landscape in the early 1970s without showing people, vehicles, commercial activity, or public infrastructure.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private structures are visible in the sampled frames, but copyright, location identification, and broader property context should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Researchers might find this under 1973 8mm Colorado mountain drive, vintage dirt road travel footage, Colorado Springs home movie road view, or 1970s rural mountain landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 Colorado Springs footage, then broader 1970s mountain driving or rural road travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

The first sampled frame is largely black from the contact sheet, with no clear landscape detail visible from the 1973 Colorado mountain-road footage. — Dark contact-sheet frame with minimal visible detail.

A forward view along a pale dirt road through wooded mountain terrain near Colorado Springs, with yellow-green foliage and dark slopes under a bright sky. — Dirt road through wooded Colorado mountain terrain.

The camera looks ahead down an unpaved road bordered by trees and yellow-green foliage, with soft 8mm color and Colorado mountain slopes in the distance. — Unpaved mountain road framed by trees.

A winding dirt road runs through a wooded Colorado mountain scene, with dense roadside foliage, rugged slopes, and visible 8mm softness and exposure variation. — Winding road with mountain ridge beyond.

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