Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Automotive Journey Through The Bottom Of Tunnel

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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 classic American car navigating a winding mountain road and entering a dark tunnel in Colorado Springs. The grainy, color-bleached film captures the rugged rock formations and dense forest surrounding the route, with the vehicle's headlights cutting through the tunnel's darkness. The footage has a nostalgic, authentic 1970s home movie quality, with natural camera movement and subtle film grain, offering a rare glimpse into mid-century automotive travel and road adventures.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Interior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120959709

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: This clip supports archival requests for 1970s American road travel, mountain tunnel approaches, and home-movie automotive inserts set in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Period detail: The visible rounded car body, washed color, and 8mm home-movie texture are consistent with early-1970s leisure travel, while the exact road or tunnel is not identifiable from these frames alone.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective from inside or near another moving vehicle, capturing a brief, unstaged approach into a rock tunnel rather than a composed scenic view.
What appears in frame: The frames show a pale vintage car, rugged stone tunnel openings, dark interior passage, bright daylight at the far end, rocky mountain walls, and uneven handheld framing.
Film character: The clip carries soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight blur, exposure shifts, and gate-like contact-sheet edges that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short travel insert, transition into a darker passage, road-trip cutaway, or memory beat linking mountain scenery with motion through a tunnel.
Historical context: The footage reflects recreational automobile travel through rocky terrain near Colorado Springs, with the car and tunnel environment suggesting a small-scale personal travel record rather than a formal production.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible in the provided frames, but copyright, location access, and any property-related issues should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm tunnel drive, 1970s mountain road home movie, vintage car entering tunnel, and Super 8 Colorado road travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1973 Colorado Springs travel footage, and then with broader 1970s mountain road or vintage car journey material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A pale vintage car appears near a rocky tunnel entrance during a 1973 home-movie road sequence in Colorado Springs, with soft color and handheld framing. — Car nears the rock tunnel entrance.

The camera frames a rough stone tunnel opening in Colorado Springs, with the tunnel interior falling into shadow and daylight visible at the far end. — Dark tunnel mouth with daylight beyond.

A pale car moves into the shadowed rock tunnel, with the bright far opening and rough tunnel wall visible in the 1973 Colorado Springs travel footage. — Car passes into the tunnel shadow.

The vehicle is mostly inside the dark tunnel, with its roofline silhouetted below the bright exit opening in this short 8mm Colorado Springs road passage. — Vehicle continues through the dark tunnel.

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