Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Driving Through The Tunnels

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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 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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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.

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.

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.

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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