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Colorado Springs Colorado USA-1973: Modern Glass and Steel Building

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  • Year1973
  • Decade1970s
  • LocationColorado Springs, Colorado, United States
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1973 · Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
  • StatusDirect License

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Modern Glass and Steel Building — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film footage from Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, in 1973, showcasing a modernist glass and steel building with a distinctive elevated structure supported by stilts. The camera pans across a spacious, empty plaza with young trees, benches, and clean white lines on the pavement, set against a backdrop of a large mountain range under a partly cloudy sky. The scene captures a quiet, sterile, and futuristic mid-century architectural vision, with a small aircraft visible on a grassy hill in the final frame. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel.

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
120959856

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

  • People visible: Yes
  • Minors 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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Topics & Keywords

  • clean
  • sterile
  • modern
  • lines
  • plaza
  • trees
  • seats
  • mountains
  • business
  • under
  • glass
  • steel
  • structure
  • stilts
  • front
  • buildings
  • landmarks
  • colorado springs colorado USA
  • 1973
  • 1973 vintage film
  • Colorado Springs 1973
  • modernist architecture
  • glass and steel building
  • elevated structure
  • stilt support
  • empty plaza
  • mid-century design
  • retro 8mm footage
  • Super 8 film
  • archival footage
  • historic buildings
  • mountain backdrop
  • vintage color film
  • nostalgic home movie
  • clean lines
  • public space
  • modernist landscape
  • 1970s architecture
  • American midwest

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for archive requests needing 1970s Colorado Springs exterior architecture, modernist civic or institutional design, and quiet urban-plaza establishing material for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail
The glass curtain walls, exposed steel supports, open paved plaza, young planted trees, and benches may show early-1970s modernist planning and campus-like public space design.
Home-movie behavior
The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, panning across the building and plaza from a distance rather than presenting a staged architectural survey.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a glass-and-steel building on columns, pale plaza paving with white lines, young trees, benches, lampposts, mountain slopes, and a partly cloudy sky.
Film character
The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, contact-sheet frame edges, and handheld motion that give the footage physical home-movie texture.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, architectural cutaway, location transition, or reflective memory beat for Colorado Springs in the 1970s.
Historical context
The scene visually contrasts a sparse planned plaza and modern building facade with the mountain backdrop, without enough evidence to identify the specific institution or event.
Research note
Rights review should account for copyright in the film scan, possible architecture or property interests, and any distant people or likenesses that may be present but are not clearly identifiable in these frames.
Research search match
Relevant searches include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm modernist building, 1970s glass steel architecture plaza, Colorado mountain backdrop home movie, and Super 8 urban planning exterior.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 Colorado Springs exteriors, then broader 1970s modernist architecture, plazas, and mountain-city establishing footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs footage appears to show a modern glass-and-steel building across an open plaza, with young trees and dark mountain slopes behind it.

Modern building across an open plaza with mountains behind.

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The camera view holds on the modernist facade and raised structure across a pale plaza, with planted trees partially blocking the building and mountains in the background.

Glass facade and raised structure beyond plaza trees.

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A closer panning frame shows benches, pale pavement markings, young trees, and the lower level of the modern glass building in Colorado Springs.

Benches and trees in front of the modern building.

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The final frame centers the glass-and-steel building behind plaza trees and benches, with the Colorado Springs mountain backdrop still visible above the roofline.

Modernist plaza scene with mountain backdrop.

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