Colorado Springs Colorado USA-1973: Car Driving on Winding Mountain Road, Colorado

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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 on Winding Mountain Road, Colorado — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 showing a white sedan driving along a winding mountain road in Colorado Springs. The car navigates a narrow dirt path flanked by dense evergreen pines and rugged, tree-covered slopes under a bright blue sky. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, capturing a nostalgic road trip through the scenic Rocky Mountain terrain. The perspective suggests a passenger's view from a moving vehicle, with the car steadily advancing through the natural landscape.

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: 120959645

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This 1970s Colorado Springs home-movie clip helps answer requests for Rocky Mountain road travel, period automobile movement, and scenic mountain driving inserts for documentary or memory-based edits.
Period detail: The white sedan, narrow unpaved mountain road, and color 8mm texture may show early-1970s leisure travel through a wooded Colorado mountain setting.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the unstaged feel of a passenger or following-vehicle view during a family road trip, with the camera tracking a car ahead through curves and trees.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white sedan, winding dirt road, evergreen pines, steep forested slopes, distant mountain ridges, blue sky, and indistinct occupants inside the car.
Film character: The clip carries visible 8mm grain, soft focus, mild color shift toward blue-purple shadows, handheld motion, and exposure variation consistent with scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel insert, road-trip transition, scenic cutaway, or brief memory beat linking people to mountain recreation in the 1970s.
Historical context: The scene places a private automobile in a rugged mountain landscape, reflecting recreational car travel and sightseeing without identifying a specific road, landmark, or event.
Research note: Human review should note indistinct people visible inside the car and separate any likeness concerns from copyright status, with no visible logos, brands, or private property apparent in these frames.
Research search match: Likely researcher searches include 1970s Colorado mountain road home movie, 8mm white car driving through pines, Colorado Springs road trip footage, and vintage Rocky Mountain automobile travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 Colorado Springs mountain-road material, then broader 1970s scenic road-trip and automobile travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A white sedan drives away along a narrow mountain road near Colorado Springs, with evergreen pines, forested slopes, and distant ridges visible in 1973 home-movie footage. — White sedan descending a wooded mountain road.
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The white sedan moves through a bend on a wooded mountain road in the Colorado Springs area, with pine trees and rocky slopes filling the background. — Car rounding a curve between pines and mountain slopes.
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A rear view of the white sedan shows it traveling along a dirt mountain road, framed by tall evergreen trees and layered Colorado mountain terrain. — Rear view of sedan on dirt road beneath mountain ridges.
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The white sedan recedes along the road between pine trees and shaded mountain slopes, with the soft color and exposure shifts of 1970s 8mm home-movie film. — Sedan receding into a pine-lined mountain curve.
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