Colorado Springs Colorado USA-1973: Imperial Hotel on Main Street

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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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Imperial Hotel on Main Street — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, capturing a nostalgic street view of the Imperial Hotel-Motel. The clip shows classic American automobiles from the early 1970s parked along a sunlit main street, with a woman in period clothing standing near the hotel entrance. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight camera shake, offering authentic archival footage of a small-town commercial district with storefronts, awnings, and a retro atmosphere.

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: 120960429

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 clip helps solve requests for 1970s Colorado Springs street-life footage, especially documentary inserts showing a small commercial district viewed from a moving home-movie camera.
Period detail: Visible era clues include early-1970s automobiles, hotel-motel signage, storefront awnings, sidewalk lamp posts, and color 8mm home-movie rendering consistent with the supplied 1973 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot quality, glancing from the street toward the Imperial Hotel-Motel facade and parked cars rather than staging a formal architectural record.
What appears in frame: The frames show the Imperial Hotel-Motel frontage, a theatre lounge reference on the sign, storefront windows, curbside classic cars, a woman near the entrance, street lamps, and buildings rising along the block.
Film character: The clip carries soft color 8mm texture with visible grain, slight fading, uneven exposure, and handheld or in-car movement that reads as authentic home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, street transition, travel-memory beat, or cutaway for 1970s Colorado Springs urban atmosphere.
Historical context: The view documents a downtown-style hotel and motel block with automobile-oriented curb parking, suggesting everyday commercial street life without making claims beyond the visible scene.
Research note: Human likeness, hotel-motel signage, and storefront identifiers are visible, so copyright, trademark, location, and likeness questions should be reviewed separately before publication.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm street footage, Imperial Hotel-Motel home movie, 1970s Colorado downtown cars, and vintage motel street view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs street scenes, and then with broader 1970s motel, road-trip, and small-city commercial-district footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing the Imperial Hotel-Motel sign, storefront entrance, a woman at the sidewalk, and classic cars parked beside the building. — Imperial Hotel-Motel frontage with sidewalk figure and parked cars.
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1973 Colorado Springs street view looking along the Imperial Hotel-Motel facade, with several early-1970s cars parked at the curb and commercial buildings continuing uphill. — Hotel-motel block with curbside cars.
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Colorado Springs 1973 home-movie frame showing the Imperial Hotel-Motel side of the street, classic automobiles, storefront awnings, and the road extending past the block. — Commercial block and parked automobiles.
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1973 Colorado Springs frame with a moving car crossing the foreground, the Imperial Hotel-Motel facade behind it, and a line of parked cars continuing along the block. — Passing car in front of the hotel-motel block.
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