Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Car Driving Through Mountains

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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 white car driving along a winding mountain road in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The clip captures the vehicle navigating through a forested mountain landscape with pine trees and rocky slopes under a bright sky. The camera appears to be mounted inside a moving vehicle, providing a steady forward view of the road ahead. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, with a natural, unscripted feel. The scene includes a distinctive rock tunnel carved into the mountainside, emphasizing the rugged terrain. This authentic 1970s travel footage offers a nostalgic glimpse of American road trips and outdoor exploration.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120959691

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s 8mm travel footage suited to archive requests for American mountain road trips, scenic driving inserts, and Colorado vacation material.
Period detail: The clip shows period home-movie color, a white car on an unpaved or dusty mountain road, and a road tunnel through rock, with the 1973 Colorado Springs setting supported by supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The scene has the visitor-shot perspective of someone filming from a moving vehicle during a recreational drive through rugged mountain terrain.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white car, dusty winding road, pine-covered slopes, exposed rock faces, a small rock tunnel, bright daylight, and Super 8 frame edges.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, mild color fading, uneven exposure, motion blur, and contact-print framing that give it a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel insert, road-transition shot, scenic cutaway, or memory beat for 1970s western U.S. driving footage.
Historical context: The clip reflects leisure travel by car through a mountainous recreational landscape without showing identifiable people, signage, or commercial activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any roadway or park-related property considerations should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful researcher searches include 1970s Colorado mountain road footage, 8mm car driving through mountains, Colorado Springs travel home movie, and vintage road tunnel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1973 Colorado Springs or Colorado mountain travel footage, and then with broader 1970s American road-trip scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing a white car ahead on a winding dusty mountain road with pine trees and rocky hillsides. — Car on a dusty mountain road.

1973 Colorado Springs travel footage frame with a pale car near a rocky roadside tunnel and forested mountain slope beyond. — Road nearing a rock tunnel.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing a small tunnel opening in a rocky mountainside beside a bright road and pine-covered terrain. — Rock tunnel in the mountainside.

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing a winding mountain road passing a rock-cut tunnel with pine forest and rugged slopes behind it. — Mountain road and rock-cut tunnel.

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