Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: A Group Of People Marching In Formation

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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 shows a large group of individuals in uniform formation marching in precise rows across a paved airfield. The subjects wear light-colored shirts and dark trousers, moving in unison before a massive, modernist building with extensive glass windows. The scene is captured through a dark film gate, with visible grain and color shifts typical of Super 8 film. The bright daylight and scattered clouds enhance the nostalgic, archival quality of this military or cadet drill performance.

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: 120960099

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 military or cadet drill activity, organized group movement, and documentary cutaways of formal public formation on a paved institutional grounds.
Period detail: The light shirts, dark trousers, large paved surface, and modernist glass-and-concrete building may show early 1970s institutional or military training surroundings consistent with the supplied Colorado Springs metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the value of a distant visitor or spectator viewpoint, observing a large formation from behind the film gate rather than from an official close-up camera position.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include uniformed groups arranged in rows, a broad paved airfield or parade area, a large modernist building with long window bands, lamp posts, scattered clouds, and dark 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The clip carries a Super 8 home-movie texture with soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, high daylight exposure, and steady but informal framing through a dark film gate.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or contextual cutaway for military training, cadet formation, public ceremony, or 1970s institutional life.
Historical context: The scene visually documents disciplined group formation and coordinated movement in a large open civic or military-looking setting without enough visible evidence to identify the unit or event.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, faces are not individually readable, and the setting may involve military or institutional property, so likeness, location, and property review should remain separate from copyright review.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm marching formation, 1970s cadets on parade ground, uniformed group drill home movie, and archival military formation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs material, and then with broader 1970s marching, cadet, military training, or institutional ceremony clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing distant uniformed groups arranged in rows on a broad paved area before a large modernist building. — Uniformed formation outside a large institutional building.

1973 Colorado Springs frame with multiple uniformed formations spread across a paved parade or airfield area near a large building with long bands of windows. — Rows of uniformed people across a paved formation area.

Distant 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing ordered uniformed groups on a bright paved grounds with a modern institutional building in the background. — Ordered rows on the paved grounds.

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie still with uniformed formations in the foreground and middle distance outside a large modernist building under daylight sky. — Foreground formation with building behind.

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