Colorado Springs Colorado USA-1973: Cow Blocking Rural Mountain Road in Colorado

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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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Cow Blocking Rural Mountain Road in Colorado — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, in 1973, showing a rural mountain road under a bright blue sky. A brown and white cow stands directly in the middle of the paved road, blocking traffic, while other cows graze near a wooden fence on the grassy hillside. In the distance, a white van approaches, and a small wooden structure and utility poles are visible. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, saturated colors, and a nostalgic, candid quality, capturing a humorous moment of rural life.

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: 120960586

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$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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s rural Colorado inserts, documentary cutaways about mountain roads, livestock encounters, roadside travel, or candid home-movie moments outside Colorado Springs.
Period detail: The footage shows era-consistent 8mm color, a paved rural road, wooden fencing, utility poles, a small roadside structure, and a distant light-colored van that may reflect early 1970s travel conditions.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged roadside delay from a traveler’s perspective, with the camera watching a cow standing in the roadway while other cattle graze nearby.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a brown and white cow in the road, additional cows beside a fence, a curving paved mountain road, grassy hillsides, utility poles, a small dark structure, a distant van, and a bright blue sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan has saturated color, visible grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet framing that gives the scene a tactile home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief comic cutaway, rural travel insert, transition into mountain-country material, or memory beat about unplanned road interruptions.
Historical context: The scene places domestic cattle, open roadside fencing, and vehicle travel in a rural mountain setting near Colorado Springs without making broader claims about agriculture or transportation history.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or location permissions should still be reviewed separately before publication.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm cow in road, 1970s rural Colorado home movie, cattle blocking mountain road, and vintage Super 8 roadside livestock footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1973 Colorado Springs or Colorado mountain-road footage, and then with rural livestock, road-trip, or humorous travel-delay scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 8mm home-movie frame near Colorado Springs showing a paved rural road, roadside cattle, fencing, utility poles, and a distant light-colored van under a blue sky. — Cattle stand near a rural mountain road as a van approaches in the distance.
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1973 Colorado Springs-area 8mm frame showing a brown and white cow blocking a paved rural road while other cattle graze along a fenced hillside. — A cow blocks the road while other cattle graze along the fence line.
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A 1973 8mm home-movie frame from near Colorado Springs shows a cow paused on a rural paved road, with grazing cattle, fencing, utility poles, and a small structure beyond. — The roadside cow remains in the lane as the road rises toward a small structure.
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1973 Colorado Springs-area 8mm frame showing a brown and white cow occupying the rural road while two other cows stand near a fence on the grassy shoulder. — A cow holds the lane as two cattle stand beside the road.
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