Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Cadets Assembling in Formation at School

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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 footage from 1973 captures a large group of cadets in white shirts and dark trousers assembling in formation on a paved courtyard outside a modern institutional building. The subjects, likely military or ROTC trainees, stand in precise rows under bright daylight, with some individuals moving into position. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, framed by dark borders typical of home movie footage. The scene conveys discipline and order, offering authentic archival material for historical or nostalgic projects.

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: 120960031

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm clip supports archival requests for 1970s cadet, school, ROTC, or military-style formation footage for documentary, museum, education, or period-context edits.
Period detail: The white shirts, dark trousers, peaked caps, broad paved courtyard, and modern institutional building may show a 1970s military academy, school, or cadet training environment in Colorado Springs.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the distant home-movie observation of many uniformed people forming lines, shifting positions, and organizing themselves rather than performing for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include uniformed cadets in rows, a paved outdoor courtyard, painted ground lines, tall light poles, a large modern building, dark film borders, and groups moving into formation.
Film character: The footage has a Super 8 home-movie texture with soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, bright daylight exposure, gate borders, and slight handheld instability.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, training cutaway, institutional transition, or memory beat for 1970s discipline, schooling, or cadet life.
Historical context: The scene visually documents organized group assembly and uniformed student or trainee culture in a public-facing institutional setting without confirming the specific school or program from the frames alone.
Research note: People and faces are visible at a distance, and the military or cadet context should be reviewed for likeness and contextual use while copyright, location, and property considerations remain separate clearance questions.
Research search match: Useful researcher searches might include 1973 Colorado Springs cadets on courtyard, 1970s 8mm cadet formation, uniformed students assembling, and vintage home movie military school drill.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs material, and then with broader clips of cadets, schools, institutional courtyards, or uniformed group formations.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1973 Colorado Springs footage, uniformed cadets in white shirts and dark trousers assemble across a paved courtyard outside a large modern institutional building. — Cadets gather on a courtyard outside a modern building.

Uniformed cadets stand in ordered rows and small clusters on a bright paved courtyard in Colorado Springs, with a modern institutional building behind them. — Cadets form rows on the paved courtyard.

Multiple lines of cadets in white shirts and caps assemble in a paved courtyard, with other uniformed people walking into position beneath the large building facade. — Cadets continue moving into formation.

A wider view shows large groups of uniformed cadets arranged across the courtyard near a modern institutional building in the 1973 Colorado Springs home-movie footage. — Large cadet formations fill the courtyard.

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