Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Vintage Footage Of Military Parade 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 1973 8mm home movie footage from Colorado Springs, Colorado, showing a large military or cadet parade formation on a sunny day. Uniformed individuals in light-colored shirts and dark pants stand in precise rows across a paved courtyard in front of a modern institutional building with extensive windows. The scene captures a formal assembly or review, with some figures holding flags or banners. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, characteristic of amateur 1970s home movie recordings. The footage offers authentic archival material for historical, military, or nostalgic content.

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: 120960119

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: 1970s 8mm footage useful for productions needing an institutional military or cadet parade formation in Colorado Springs with visible ranks, flags, and review-ground staging.
Period detail: The modern windowed building, paved courtyard, light shirts with dark trousers, and faded color 8mm stock support a 1973 home-movie context without identifying a specific institution from the frames alone.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves a visitor-shot or family-observer viewpoint from a distance, emphasizing the scale and order of the formation rather than close individual action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include uniformed rows, small flags or guidons, a broad paved assembly area, lamp posts, parked vehicles, a large modern institutional building, bright sky, and film-frame borders from the scan.
Film character: The footage carries a home-movie 8mm texture with soft focus, visible grain, faded blue-purple color, slight exposure variation, and mild handheld instability.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, period cutaway, institutional memory beat, or transition into a sequence about military schooling, cadet life, or formal public ceremony.
Historical context: The scene visually documents a disciplined formal assembly in a large civic or military-style setting, with people arranged in repeated ranks across an open courtyard.
Research note: People are visible at a distance and the setting may require contextual identification, so likeness, institutional-property, and editorial-use questions should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Good match for searches such as 1970s 8mm Colorado Springs military parade formation, cadet review home movie, vintage uniformed assembly courtyard, and Super 8 parade ranks.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 Colorado Springs material, then broader 1970s military, cadet, parade, or institutional assembly footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing uniformed military or cadet ranks arranged across a paved courtyard in front of a modern institutional building. — Uniformed formation outside a large institutional building.

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie still with several uniformed groups standing in ordered blocks on a broad paved area near a large institutional facade. — Several ordered groups stand in formation.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm still showing uniformed ranks and small flags spread across a paved assembly space outside a large windowed structure. — Ranks and flags across the assembly ground.

Wider 1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing uniformed groups on a paved courtyard with parked vehicles and a modern institutional building in the background. — Wide view of the parade formation and surrounding grounds.

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