Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Clouds Lazily Drift Above A Mountain Range

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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, USA, in 1973, showing a scenic mountain range under a bright blue sky. White clouds drift lazily across the peaks, with a foreground of dense green trees and a hint of a road below. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a slightly faded quality characteristic of 1970s amateur footage. The view is framed by dark borders, suggesting it was shot through a window or from a moving vehicle. This nostalgic clip captures a peaceful, sunlit day in the American West.

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: 120959809

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: 1970s 8mm scenic Colorado Springs mountain footage suited to documentary inserts, regional travel context, or quiet landscape transitions.
Period detail: The clip shows period home-movie color, soft exposure, and 8mm frame edges, with no visible vehicles, signs, clothing, or architecture to add more precise era detail beyond the supplied 1973 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The viewpoint feels like an amateur visitor or traveler briefly filming the mountain range from a fixed or vehicle-adjacent position rather than staging a composed landscape shot.
What appears in frame: Across the frames, a blue sky, white clouds, dark mountain ridge, green trees, faint roadside foreground, and black film-frame borders remain visible.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, slight color fading, soft focus, minor dust, and uneven frame-edge darkness that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm establishing cutaway, a regional transition, or a memory beat between travel or American West sequences.
Historical context: As visual context, the clip records a leisure or travel-era view of the Colorado Springs landscape with mountains and trees emphasized over human activity.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or clear private property are visible, but copyright, location verification, and any broader property or landscape-use questions still require normal rights review.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm mountain range, 1970s Colorado travel home movie, clouds over mountains archival footage, and Super 8 American West landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs material, then with 1970s travel, mountain, sky, and roadside landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing a mountain ridge beneath bright clouds, with green trees and dark 8mm frame borders in the foreground. — Clouds above a Colorado Springs mountain ridge.

A 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm view holds on the mountain range, with bright clouds along the ridge and a shadowed tree line below. — White clouds stretch across the mountain ridge.

The home-movie frame shows the Colorado Springs mountain range under drifting white clouds, with dense trees and a faint roadside strip near the bottom. — Trees and a faint road below the mountains.

A final 1973 Colorado Springs frame keeps the mountain ridge and cloud bank centered, with green trees, slight dust marks, and dark 8mm borders visible. — Mountain ridge framed by trees and film borders.

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