Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Mountains And Tree

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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, showcasing a rugged natural landscape with rolling hills, scattered evergreen trees, and prominent mounds of light-colored earth or mineral deposits. The scene captures a quiet, rural environment under a clear blue sky, with subtle camera movement revealing the expansive terrain. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, color saturation, and slight flicker, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic 1970s home movie offers a peaceful glimpse into the region's natural beauty and is ideal for historical, documentary, or nostalgic content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120960296

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 home-movie landscape footage from Colorado Springs that can support documentary requests for quiet Western terrain, mineral-colored hills, and evergreen-covered open space.
Period detail: The frames may show a 1973 visitor-shot rural or parkland view, with era clues coming mainly from the 8mm color stock, handheld framing, and period home-movie exposure rather than visible built features.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged value of a traveler or family camera pausing on a scenic hillside, recording terrain and trees without a planned production setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pale mounded earth, green rolling ground, scattered evergreen trees, a dark tree line, blue sky, and a small distant wooden-looking structure or fence.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, soft focus, saturated blue and green color, slight flicker, and handheld framing that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short landscape insert, geographic cutaway, travel-memory beat, or quiet transition within a 1970s Colorado or American West sequence.
Historical context: The view documents an outdoor Colorado Springs landscape as seen by a private camera in the early 1970s, without enough visible evidence to identify a specific landmark or event.
Research note: No logos or obvious private interiors are visible, but the people-visible flag means any tiny distant figures should be reviewed separately for likeness concerns, while copyright and location permissions remain separate questions.
Research search match: Useful researcher searches include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm landscape, 1970s Colorado hills home movie, evergreen hillside Super 8 footage, and pale mineral mound outdoor scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 Colorado Springs exteriors, then broader 1970s home-movie landscapes of hills, trees, and open Western terrain.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing light-colored earth mounds below a tree-covered slope under a blue sky. — Pale hillside and evergreens in Colorado Springs.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm view of a pale mound across open ground, with scattered evergreens and a wooded slope in the background. — Open terrain with a pale mound and tree line.

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame with a pale hillside deposit, green foreground, evergreen trees, and a small distant structure or fence. — Evergreens above pale earth deposits.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing a pale sloped mound in open terrain, backed by evergreens and a wooded hillside. — Pale sloped mound in wooded open terrain.

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