Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Driving Through A Small Tunnel In The 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 car driving through a narrow tunnel in the Colorado mountains. The clip begins in darkness, with the car's red taillights glowing as it approaches the tunnel exit. As the vehicle emerges, the bright daylight reveals a scenic mountain landscape with dense evergreen forests and a tree with yellow autumn leaves. The footage captures the transition from claustrophobic darkness to open natural beauty, with authentic film grain and color saturation typical of 1970s home movies. The perspective is from inside the tunnel looking forward, creating a sense of journey and discovery.

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: 120959717

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: Useful for 1970s Colorado mountain travel sequences, road-trip documentary edits, and archival inserts showing a car emerging from a dark mountain tunnel into forested daylight.
Period detail: The footage is supported as 1973 8mm home-movie material, with visible era clues limited to the color film palette, handheld framing, and older passenger cars seen from behind inside the tunnel.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged passenger viewpoint, watching the road ahead as a vehicle moves through a narrow tunnel toward the open mountain landscape.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the dark tunnel interior, arched tunnel exit, red taillights, older cars, a curving mountain road, evergreen forest, pale rocky roadside, and a yellow-leaved tree.
Film character: The 8mm image has saturated color, coarse grain, soft focus, exposure blooming at the tunnel mouth, and handheld motion that reads as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a transition from darkness to daylight, a road-trip insert, a mountain-travel cutaway, or a brief memory beat within a 1970s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents recreational or everyday mountain driving near Colorado Springs in the early 1970s, emphasizing road infrastructure, forested terrain, and autumn color without identifying a specific tunnel or landmark.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright ownership and any location or vehicle identification questions should still be reviewed separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1973 8mm Colorado mountain tunnel driving, vintage home movie car through tunnel, Colorado Springs mountain road footage, and 1970s forest road travel insert.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs or Colorado mountain travel material, and then with broader vintage road-trip, tunnel, forest, or autumn landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

In supported 1973 Colorado mountain home-movie footage, a car is seen from behind inside a dark tunnel as daylight outlines the arched exit ahead. — Car approaching the tunnel exit from darkness.

A car continues through the dark mountain tunnel toward a bright opening, where evergreen forest and roadside slope are visible outside. — Tunnel opening reveals forested mountain road.

From inside the tunnel, two older cars are visible on the mountain road beyond, with evergreen-covered slopes and a yellow-leaved tree in daylight. — Cars exiting toward a forested mountain slope.

The handheld 8mm view softens as cars move away from the tunnel area along a mountain road bordered by dense evergreens and a yellow autumn tree. — Cars pass into daylight on the mountain road.

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