Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: A Car Driving Past A Ghost Town With No

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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 car driving through a quiet, sunlit small town. The clip features classic American automobiles, including a blue Volkswagen van, parked along a main street lined with old brick and wood buildings. A prominent sign for 'Cripple Creek Gold Jewelry' and a souvenir shop with historical text about gold discovery are visible. The scene captures a nostalgic, mid-century American small town atmosphere with clear blue skies and distant mountains, rendered in authentic Super 8 film grain and color palette.

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: 120960451

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: 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: Useful for archive requests needing 1970s Colorado small-town street views, tourist storefronts, parked period cars, and mountain-town atmosphere for documentary inserts or historical scene setting.
Period detail: The clip shows 1970s-era automobiles, a blue Volkswagen van, souvenir signage, gold jewelry advertising, brick storefronts, and a roadside main-street layout consistent with the supplied 1973 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera reads as a visitor-shot home movie from a passing car or roadside stop, observing storefronts and a quiet tourist street without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a souvenir shop sign, Cripple Creek Gold Jewelry lettering, parked cars, a blue Volkswagen van, older storefront facades, streetlamps, guardrail or boardwalk edge, blue sky, and distant green mountains.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, gentle handheld framing, visible grain, slight exposure variation, contact-print edge darkness, and saturated blue-green color typical of amateur travel film.
Edit role: Editors could use the shot as a brief establishing insert, travel-memory transition, roadside cutaway, or visual bridge into a segment about Colorado tourism, ghost towns, or small-town streetscapes.
Historical context: The scene visually reflects a quiet Colorado tourist-street environment where gold-mining references, souvenir retail, older commercial buildings, and automobile travel shape the public-facing landscape.
Research note: No people are visible, but storefront signage and commercial names are legible, so trademark, copyright, and location-identification review may still be needed depending on use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1973 Colorado 8mm street scene, Cripple Creek souvenir shop home movie, Colorado mountain town storefronts, vintage Volkswagen van on main street, and 1970s tourist ghost town footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1973 Colorado Springs or nearby Colorado mountain-town footage, and then with broader 1970s American roadside tourism or ghost-town material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado home-movie frame showing a souvenir shop facade with Cripple Creek Gold Jewelry lettering, historical gold-discovery text, and a parked car partly blocking the lower storefront. — Souvenir and gold jewelry storefront.

1973 Colorado home-movie frame looking along a quiet main street with parked mid-century cars, a blue Volkswagen van, storefronts, tall streetlamps, and green mountains in the distance. — Main street with parked cars and mountains.

1973 Colorado home-movie frame showing a roadside view past older storefronts, a blue Volkswagen van, several parked cars, a sloped street edge, and mountains under a bright sky. — Roadside view of the town street.

1973 Colorado home-movie frame capturing a quiet commercial street with older buildings, parked vehicles, upright streetlights, a roadside barrier, and green hills beyond the town. — Quiet commercial street and hillside backdrop.

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