Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: A Car Drives Down A Steep Mountainous 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

A vintage 8mm home movie clip from 1973 showing a white automobile navigating a steep, unpaved mountain road in Colorado Springs. The car drives through a narrow passage flanked by rugged rock formations and boulders, with dense forested hillsides rising in the background. The footage captures the vehicle moving downhill on a dusty, winding path, with natural sunlight highlighting the rocky terrain. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic, authentic 1970s road trip atmosphere.

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: 120959672

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 projects needing real home-movie coverage of automobile travel on a steep mountain road in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Period detail: The white car, 8mm color stock, and handheld roadside framing support the 1973 metadata while the rugged unpaved road and forested hills place the scene in a mountainous visitor-travel setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged value of a traveler filming a car negotiating a narrow rocky descent from a practical roadside or passenger-view perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white automobile, dusty unpaved road, steep rock walls, large boulders, forested hillsides, bright sunlit rock faces, and soft distant mountain terrain.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm home-movie texture through coarse grain, soft focus, slight motion blur, uneven exposure, and cool color shifts around the frame edges.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, travel transition, road-trip memory beat, or cutaway for mountain driving and 1970s vacation movement.
Historical context: The scene documents leisure or local travel by automobile through rugged Colorado mountain terrain without visible people, signage, commercial branding, or identifiable public event context.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible in the sampled frames, but copyright status and any location or roadway permissions should be reviewed separately from likeness or trademark concerns.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1973 8mm Colorado Springs mountain road footage, vintage car on unpaved mountain road, or home movie automobile descending rocky Colorado terrain.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Colorado road-travel shots, then other 1973 Colorado Springs footage, then broader 1970s mountain driving or vacation transportation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing a white automobile on a steep unpaved mountain road bordered by rugged rocks and distant forested slopes. — White car on a steep rocky mountain road.

White automobile continues downhill through a narrow rocky passage in Colorado Springs, with sunlit boulders and forested mountain terrain behind it. — Car descending through a rocky passage.

Home-movie view of rugged Colorado Springs rock formations above a steep road, with the white car partly visible below and wooded hills in the background. — Rock formations above the descending car.

A white automobile appears below rugged boulders on a steep mountain road in the Colorado Springs 1973 home-movie footage, with dense trees across the slope behind. — Car below boulders on the mountain road.

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