Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Beautiful Mountain And Waterfall

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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 Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1973, showcasing a picturesque mountain landscape with a cascading waterfall. The clip features vibrant autumn foliage in the foreground with golden leaves framing the scene, while the waterfall flows over dark rocks under a bright blue sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and natural light, capturing a nostalgic, authentic slice of mid-1970s Americana. The camera remains steady, offering a serene, timeless view of nature's beauty.

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: 120959800

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 U.S. nature, travel, or regional-history edits needing a short Colorado Springs mountain-and-waterfall home-movie insert.
Period detail: The scene may show a 1973 visitor view of a mountain landscape near Colorado Springs, with autumn foliage and the soft color rendering associated with small-gauge home-movie film.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds a steady scenic view, suggesting a traveler or family filmmaker pausing to record landscape details rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a rocky waterfall, golden leaves, dark mountain ridges, blue sky, white clouds, foreground trees, and repeated contact-sheet views of the same landscape.
Film character: The 8mm image has visible grain, slight softness, blue-magenta color shifts, and uneven exposure that give the short scenic view its physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, regional establishing insert, nature transition, or memory beat within a travel or family-history sequence.
Historical context: The footage reflects a mid-1970s amateur travel perspective on Colorado mountain scenery without visible people, signage, vehicles, or identifiable commercial activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still assess copyright status and whether the landscape or waterfall is identifiable for project-specific clearance needs.
Research search match: Likely researcher searches include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm mountain scenery, vintage Colorado waterfall home movie, 1970s Rocky Mountain travel footage, and autumn foliage Colorado archive film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1973 Colorado Springs or Colorado travel material, then broader 1970s U.S. mountain, waterfall, and autumn landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing a waterfall running over dark rocks behind yellow autumn foliage. — Waterfall behind autumn leaves.

1973 Colorado Springs landscape frame with a dark mountain ridge, white clouds, blue sky, and tree line in the foreground. — Mountain ridge under clouds.

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie view of mountain slopes and clouds over a shaded tree line, with slight small-gauge film softness. — Clouds over mountain slopes.

1973 Colorado Springs scenic frame showing a distant mountain ridge, bright clouds, blue sky, and trees in the lower foreground. — Distant ridge and foreground trees.

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