Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Cow Blocks The Road

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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 brown and white cow blocking a rural road. The cow stands in the middle of the asphalt, with other cattle grazing near a broken wooden fence on the grassy roadside. The scene features a bright blue sky with scattered clouds, power lines, and a small building in the distance. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color saturation, and slight motion blur, capturing a candid moment of rural life. The camera appears to be moving, likely from a vehicle, as the perspective shifts across the frames. This authentic archival footage is ideal for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical projects.

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: 120960596

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: Useful for 1970s Colorado home-movie requests needing a brief rural road encounter with cattle for documentary, educational, or period-life editing.
Period detail: The asphalt road, roadside utility poles, wire fencing, open pasture, and saturated 8mm color support an early-1970s rural Colorado Springs setting without identifying a specific landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The camera appears to film from a moving vehicle as it approaches and passes cattle at the roadside, giving the clip an unstaged travel-home-movie perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a brown and white cow on the road, other cattle grazing near a worn fence, grassy rocky roadside, utility poles, a distant small structure, asphalt pavement, blue sky, and low clouds.
Film character: The footage has saturated color, visible grain, soft focus, mild motion blur, and gate-edge framing characteristic of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural cutaway, travel insert, transition beat, or humorous memory detail within a 1970s Colorado sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents roadside livestock and open grazing land near Colorado Springs, reflecting a rural edge-of-town environment rather than an identifiable civic event.
Research note: No people, faces, children, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location, and any property-related uses should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm cattle road, 1970s rural Colorado home movie, cow blocking road vintage footage, and Super 8 roadside livestock.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with 1973 Colorado Springs travel material, and then with broader rural roads, cattle, farms, and 1970s home-movie themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1973 Colorado Springs home-movie footage, a brown and white cow stands in the road while other cattle graze near a roadside fence under a blue sky. — Cow blocking a rural road with grazing cattle nearby.

The moving 8mm camera approaches a cow in the road near Colorado Springs, with additional cattle by the fence and a small building in the distance. — Approach toward cattle on a rural roadside.

As the camera passes, cattle graze beside the road in 1973 Colorado Springs footage, with fence posts, rocks, grass, and part of a vehicle edge visible. — Passing cattle beside the roadside fence.

The final frame shows a closer roadside view of a brown and white cow grazing by the fence in 1973 Colorado Springs home-movie footage. — Closer view of cow grazing beside the road.

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