Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Mountains In The Back

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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, showcasing a scenic mountain landscape. The clip features a prominent mountain range with patches of snow under a bright blue sky with scattered white clouds. Lush green trees and a small town are visible in the foreground, with power lines crossing the frame. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics, including natural color shifts, film grain, and slight camera movement, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-1970s Americana. The view is framed by dark borders, suggesting it was shot through a window or from a vehicle.

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: 120959828

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 home-movie landscape footage suited to documentary or educational requests for Colorado Springs mountain views and mid-century American travel atmosphere.
Period detail: The clip shows a color 8mm-era scenic view with saturated blue sky, soft focus, visible film borders, and roadside or window-framed composition consistent with the supplied 1973 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage carries a visitor-shot perspective, lingering briefly on mountains, trees, a distant town, and power lines from a casual vantage point rather than a staged scenic setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a snow-patched mountain range, bright sky with white clouds, dark foreground trees, a small distant settlement, roadside or window edges, power lines, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The scan shows home-movie texture through grain, slight color shift toward blue and purple, soft exposure, mild camera movement, and dark gate or contact-sheet borders around the frames.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing cutaway, travel-memory insert, or transition beat for a Colorado Springs or Rocky Mountain sequence.
Historical context: The view documents a recreational or traveler's look at mountain scenery near Colorado Springs, with natural landscape and modest built environment visible in the distance.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or obvious branded material are visible, but users should still review location, copyright, and any property implications separately before publication.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm mountain landscape, vintage Colorado travel footage, home movie Rocky Mountain view, and Super 8 scenic town foothills.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Colorado Springs footage from 1973, then with other 1970s mountain, travel, tourism, and roadside landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing a snow-patched mountain range beyond dark green trees, a small distant town, and faint power lines. — Mountain view over trees near Colorado Springs.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame with a broad mountain ridge, scattered clouds, foreground trees, power lines, and a pale road or window-edge shape near the lower border. — Broad mountain ridge with trees and clouds.

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing mountains with snow patches, a bright blue sky, white clouds, trees in shadow, and a small distant settlement. — Snow-patched mountains above a wooded foreground.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame with a mountain range stretching across the background, dark trees below, scattered white clouds, distant buildings, and a dark vertical border at the right edge. — Mountain range framed by trees and film border.

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