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Colorado Springs Colorado USA-1973: Car Driving Past Mountain Tunnel

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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 Past Mountain Tunnel — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, in 1973, capturing a classic American road trip through a mountainous landscape. The clip shows a car driving along a dirt road, passing a tunnel carved into a rocky hillside surrounded by evergreen trees. The film exhibits characteristic 8mm grain, color shifts, and slight camera shake, with a white van briefly visible. The scene evokes a sense of mid-20th century Americana and nostalgic travel, with natural lighting and a rugged, scenic environment.

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: 120959697

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$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: This clip supports 1970s road-trip, mountain travel, and Colorado scenic transportation requests needing real 8mm home-movie footage rather than staged recreation.
Period detail: The supplied 1973 metadata and visible older vehicles, dirt road, and handheld 8mm filming style point to amateur travel documentation in the Colorado Springs area.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a traveler’s perspective, lingering briefly on a roadside tunnel, rocky slopes, trees, and passing vehicles as part of an unstaged journey through mountain scenery.
What appears in frame: The frames show a rocky hillside, tunnel opening, evergreen trees, dirt roadside, pale sky, a white van, and portions of a car near the edge of the frame.
Film character: The footage carries visible 8mm grain, soft focus, color fading, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that give it a period home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief road-travel insert, scenic transition, tunnel cutaway, or memory beat within a 1970s American vacation sequence.
Historical context: The clip reflects amateur automobile travel through rugged mountain terrain, with the road and tunnel presented as part of the landscape rather than as a named landmark.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible in the supplied frames, but copyright, location, and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1973 8mm Colorado mountain road, Colorado Springs tunnel home movie, vintage car travel rocky hillside, and 1970s American road trip scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other Colorado Springs 1973 travel footage, and then with broader 1970s mountain road or tunnel-driving material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs-area 8mm frame showing a rocky mountain slope, evergreen trees, and a dark tunnel opening along a roadside. — Tunnel opening in a rocky mountain hillside.
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A white van appears near a carved roadside tunnel below a rocky, tree-lined slope in the supplied 1973 Colorado Springs travel footage. — White van near the roadside tunnel.
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Handheld 8mm frame from the mountain road sequence showing a dark rock face, bright exposed stone, and the rear portion of a car near the lower edge. — Car edge below the rocky road cut.
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Final frame of the 1973 Colorado Springs-area road scene, with a rugged rock face and a partial white vehicle entering the lower right edge. — Partial vehicle beside the rocky slope.
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