Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Cows Grazing By The Roadside In The Valley

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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 captures cows grazing along a roadside in a mountain valley near Colorado Springs, Colorado. The clip shows brown and white bovine animals in a pastoral setting with wooden fence posts, rocky terrain, and lush green hills under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics including grain, slight color fading, and a handheld perspective, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical storytelling.

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: 120960616

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: 1970s 8mm Colorado home-movie footage suited to requests for rural roadside cattle, mountain valley scenery, or pastoral Western travel cutaways.
Period detail: The visible clues are mostly environmental rather than datable, with 8mm color stock, handheld framing, roadside fencing, grazing cattle, and open mountain terrain consistent with the supplied 1973 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged traveler perspective, alternating from roadside animals to a broad mountain view as if filmed quickly during a scenic stop or drive-by.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include brown and white cattle, a roadside edge, leaning wooden fence posts, rocky grassland, green hills, forested slopes, distant mountain ridges, and bright blue sky with clouds.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm grain, mild color shift, uneven exposure, gate edges, and handheld framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture of the original scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural travel insert, a Colorado establishing cutaway, a transition from roadside detail to landscape, or a quiet memory beat in a 1970s sequence.
Historical context: The images document a pastoral roadside encounter in a mountain valley near Colorado Springs, emphasizing open grazing land and recreational-looking home-movie observation rather than a formal agricultural record.
Research note: No people, faces, brands, or readable signage are visible, but users should still evaluate copyright, location identification, and any property implications separately for their project.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1973 Colorado 8mm cattle footage, Colorado Springs mountain valley home movie, cows grazing by roadside, and 1970s rural Colorado landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 Colorado Springs material, then broader 1970s mountain travel, roadside livestock, and pastoral Western landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 8mm home-movie frame near Colorado Springs showing brown and white cattle grazing by a roadside with leaning fence posts and green hills beyond. — Cattle graze beside a roadside fence in mountain pasture.

1973 Colorado Springs-area roadside view with cattle grazing near a green post, weathered fence line, rocky ground, and a wooded hillside behind. — Roadside cattle stand and graze near a fence line.

1973 8mm landscape frame near Colorado Springs showing a broad mountain valley, dark forested slopes, open green land, and scattered white clouds in a blue sky. — A wide mountain valley opens under a bright clouded sky.

1973 Colorado Springs-area home-movie frame of distant mountain ridges, a green valley floor, dark tree-covered slopes, and bright sky with small clouds. — Distant ridges and valley terrain fill the landscape view.

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