Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Cadets in Formation at Military Training

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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 large formation of cadets in uniform assembled in a paved courtyard. The cadets stand in precise rows and columns in front of a modern institutional building under a clear sky. A single car is visible on the left side of the frame. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics with natural color shifts, slight grain, and a subtle vignette effect, capturing a moment of military discipline and order.

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: 120960078

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: Useful for documentary or educational edits needing 1970s Colorado Springs military academy or cadet formation footage from an amateur 8mm perspective.
Period detail: The modern institutional building, paved parade area, uniformed cadet ranks, and 1973 metadata place the scene in an early-1970s military training or academy environment.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has visitor-shot observational value, holding a distant view of disciplined cadet rows rather than staged close-ups or formal news coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large paved courtyard, cadets in ordered formations, a modern multi-story institutional building, a clear sky, a small car at frame left, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, mild grain, blue-purple color shift, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet frame edges that add authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, disciplined-formation cutaway, or memory beat for military training, academy life, or 1970s institutional settings.
Historical context: The footage visually documents a large group of uniformed cadets assembled in a formal outdoor setting, suggesting organized training or ceremony without confirming the specific institution or event.
Research note: People are visible at a distance and the military setting may be sensitive, so users should review likeness, institutional identification, and context separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1973 Colorado Springs cadets, 1970s military academy formation, vintage 8mm cadet parade ground, and home movie military training footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 Colorado Springs material, then broader 1970s cadet, marching, formation, or military training footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs footage shows rows of cadets assembled in formation outside a modern institutional building, with a car visible at the left edge. — Cadet formation outside a modern building.

Wide 1973 Colorado Springs frame of uniformed cadets arranged in precise rows across a paved courtyard before a large institutional building. — Wide formation of cadets in rows.

The 1973 Colorado Springs home-movie view holds on cadet formations grouped across a paved courtyard, with the institutional building stretching behind them. — Cadet groups across the courtyard.

Final 1973 Colorado Springs frame shows distant cadet formations on a paved parade area, with the modern building and film dust marks visible. — Distant cadet formation on parade ground.

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