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Colorado Springs Colorado USA-1973: Car Driving Through Mountain Tunnel

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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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Car Driving Through Mountain Tunnel — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 showing a car driving through a narrow mountain tunnel in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The clip captures the approach, entry, and passage through the dark tunnel carved into rocky terrain, with a yellow clearance sign visible inside. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural camera movement from a moving vehicle, offering authentic archival footage of mid-1970s road travel in the American West.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution
4K restored master (MP4)
License
Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery
Instant Digital Download
Duration
5s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
120960206

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

  • People visible: Yes
  • Minors visible: No
  • Logos / trademarks: Yes
  • 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

  • mountains
  • cool
  • scenic
  • nature
  • unique
  • interesting
  • touring
  • curious
  • fun
  • different
  • driving
  • tunnels
  • colorado springs colorado USA
  • 1973
  • 1973 road trip footage
  • vintage 8mm tunnel drive
  • Colorado Springs tunnel
  • Super 8 mountain road
  • 1970s home movie
  • classic American road travel
  • retro driving footage
  • archival 8mm film
  • vintage tunnel entry
  • Colorado mountain tunnel
  • 1970s car journey
  • scenic mountain drive
  • old film footage
  • historic road trip
  • nostalgic travel clip
  • 8mm tunnel scene
  • vintage Americana
  • classic Super 8
  • road trip 1973
  • mountain tunnel entrance

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
This 1973 8mm Colorado Springs road-travel clip supports archival requests for 1970s American West driving, mountain tourism, and vehicle-perspective tunnel passage inserts.
Period detail
The visible 1970s-era home-movie look, narrow mountain road, rocky tunnel entrance, and yellow clearance warning sign may show mid-century roadside infrastructure still in use during a 1973 Colorado Springs trip.
Home-movie behavior
The footage carries a visitor-shot perspective from inside or near a moving car, recording an everyday travel moment rather than a staged scenic view.
What appears in frame
The frames show a dark tunnel cut into pale rock, a road approach, a yellow clearance sign, a small visible person or figure near the entrance, heavy shadow inside the opening, and Super 8 frame borders from the scan.
Film character
The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight fading, exposure shifts between bright rock and dark tunnel, and handheld vehicle movement that reads as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a brief travel insert, transition into a mountain journey, road-trip memory beat, or cutaway for 1970s Colorado tourism and driving sequences.
Historical context
The footage documents recreational car travel through rocky terrain near Colorado Springs without establishing a specific landmark beyond the supplied location metadata.
Research note
Rights review should note visible people at a distance, a readable road sign or possible branded marking, and the need to separate copyright clearance from any likeness or property considerations.
Research search match
Useful search matches include 1973 8mm Colorado Springs tunnel driving, Super 8 mountain road travel, 1970s Colorado road trip, and vintage home movie car through tunnel.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1973 Colorado Springs travel scenes, and then broader 1970s mountain-road or tunnel-driving home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 8mm frame from Colorado Springs showing a road approaching a dark tunnel in pale rocky terrain, with a yellow clearance sign and a small figure near the entrance.

Approach to a rocky mountain tunnel.

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1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing the vehicle nearing a shadowed tunnel cut into rock, with a yellow clearance sign visible near the entrance.

Vehicle nears the shadowed tunnel opening.

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Closer 1973 8mm view of a Colorado Springs mountain tunnel entrance, showing rough rock, a dark opening, a yellow sign, and a small figure near the road edge.

Closer view of the tunnel entrance.

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1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing the car close to the tunnel mouth, with the yellow clearance sign more prominent against the dark entrance and rocky hillside.

Close approach to the tunnel mouth.

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