Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Trees On A Hillside With A Large Rock Face

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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 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, showing a wide-angle view of a sunlit hillside landscape. The scene features a prominent white and yellowish rock formation or geothermal mound in the foreground, surrounded by green grass and scattered pine trees. A clear blue sky dominates the upper portion of the frame, with a dense treeline on the hilltop. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, color saturation, and slight camera shake, capturing a nostalgic, natural outdoor setting with no visible people or movement.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Wide shotExterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120960277

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 Colorado Springs 8mm landscape footage suited to documentary requests for Rocky Mountain foothill scenery, roadside travel views, or archival environmental cutaways.
Period detail: The frames show a color 8mm-era outdoor view with saturated blue sky, handheld framing, and a natural hillside setting consistent with the supplied 1973 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, lingering briefly on an unusual pale rock face and surrounding pine hillside rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pale white and yellowish rock formation, grassy slope, scattered pine trees, darker treeline, blue sky, and a small wooden-looking structure or fence-like element near the rocks.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, saturated color, uneven exposure, slight handheld movement, and contact-print edge darkness that give it physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short scenic insert, travel transition, place-establishing cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a Colorado or western landscape sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a recreational or travel view of a natural hillside landscape near Colorado Springs without enough visible detail to identify a specific landmark or event.
Research note: Metadata flags people visible, although no identifiable faces are apparent in the sampled stills, so likeness review should remain cautious alongside standard copyright and possible location-property assessment.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm hillside landscape, vintage Colorado rock formation home movie, Super 8 pine trees blue sky, and 1970s western U.S. travel scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs footage, then with broader 1970s mountain, hillside, pine forest, and road-trip landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing a pale white and yellowish rock face below a pine-covered hillside under a saturated blue sky. — Pale rock face below a pine hillside.

Wide 8mm view of a pale rock formation and green slope near Colorado Springs, with scattered pine trees and a clear blue sky. — Rocky pale mound and scattered pines.

1973 home-movie frame of a white rock face in a grassy Colorado Springs hillside landscape, with dark pines along the upper slope. — White rock face across the hillside.

Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing a pale rock face, grassy slope, scattered pines, and a small fence-like or wooden structure near the formation. — Rock face with small structure near trees.

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