Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: A Car Driving Along On A Empty Road In A

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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 Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, in 1973, showing a white van driving along a winding rural road. The scene features a bright blue sky with scattered white clouds, grassy hills, wooden fences, and distant telephone poles. A small shed or structure sits on the hillside, and the footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color saturation, capturing a nostalgic slice of mid-1970s Americana. The camera moves forward with the vehicle, offering a first-person perspective of a quiet countryside drive.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120960572

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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: 1973 8mm Colorado Springs home-movie road footage for productions needing a rural driving insert, travel transition, or mid-1970s Americana exterior without visible people.
Period detail: The white van, narrow two-lane road, wooden fencing, telephone poles, and saturated 8mm color may show everyday rural-road travel around Colorado Springs in the early 1970s.
Home-movie behavior: The camera appears to ride forward from inside or near a moving vehicle, giving the clip the unstaged feel of a family travel record rather than a composed scenic shot.
What appears in frame: Across the four frames, a white van travels away on a winding rural road bordered by grassy hills, fence posts, telephone poles, scattered clouds, a tree line, and a small dark hillside structure.
Film character: The scan carries visible 8mm grain, strong blue color saturation, soft focus, slight blur from motion, and contact-sheet framing that preserves the physical-film character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief moving-road insert, a transition into a Colorado travel sequence, or a memory beat suggesting quiet countryside movement.
Historical context: The scene documents a lightly traveled rural roadway and surrounding open land near Colorado Springs, emphasizing transportation infrastructure and landscape rather than a named landmark or event.
Research note: No people, faces, readable logos, or music are indicated, but copyright status and any location or property permissions should still be reviewed separately from likeness concerns.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm road footage, white van rural road home movie, 1970s Colorado driving shot, and Super 8 countryside travel insert.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs exteriors, and finally with rural road, family travel, or 1970s transportation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing a white van traveling away on a quiet rural road between grassy hills, fence posts, telephone poles, and a small dark structure in the distance. — White van on a quiet rural road outside Colorado Springs.

Soft 8mm frame from the Colorado Springs footage with the white van farther ahead on the road, bordered by open grassy slopes, fence lines, clouds, and a distant hillside structure. — The van continues uphill along the open road.

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing a white van moving along a curving rural road past grassland, fence posts, telephone poles, a tree line, and a small dark structure ahead. — Curving rural road with the van moving away.

Final 8mm frame from the Colorado Springs road sequence, with the white van centered ahead on the pavement and open hills, fence posts, clouds, and a dark tree line framing the route. — The van recedes along the road beneath scattered clouds.

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