Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Video Taping Rocky Mountain Scene Blue

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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 capturing a breathtaking Rocky Mountain landscape in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The clip features a vast mountain range under a vibrant blue sky with scattered white clouds, rolling green hills, and dense forested slopes. A small aircraft briefly flies across the frame, adding motion to the serene wilderness scene. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, saturated colors, and a slightly faded quality characteristic of 1970s home movies. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of American nature and travel during the era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: AerialExterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120960628

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: This 1973 8mm Colorado Springs mountain view can support archival requests for 1970s American travel, Rocky Mountain landscape, outdoor recreation context, or scenic documentary cutaways.
Period detail: The frames show only natural landscape cues, with the 1973 period identification supported by clip metadata rather than visible clothing, vehicles, signage, or dated objects.
Home-movie behavior: The clip reflects a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, holding on a scenic mountain panorama as a travel memory rather than staging people or action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include distant mountain ridges, forested slopes, open green valley land, a bright blue sky, scattered white clouds, and the dark borders of the scanned film frame.
Film character: The footage has a 1970s 8mm home-movie texture with saturated blue sky, soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet framing from the film scan.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a brief scenic insert, establishing cutaway, travel transition, or quiet memory beat within material about Colorado, mountain tourism, or American landscapes.
Historical context: The scene documents a recreational or traveler's view of the Rocky Mountain landscape near Colorado Springs, without visible people, buildings, signage, or identifiable events in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in these frames, but users should still review copyright status, source permissions, and any location-specific use requirements separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1970s 8mm Colorado mountain landscape, Colorado Springs home movie scenery, Rocky Mountain valley view, blue sky mountain cutaway, and vintage travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs material, and then with broader 1970s mountain travel, wilderness, and scenic landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 8mm home-movie frame of a Rocky Mountain landscape near Colorado Springs, with distant ridges, dark forested slopes, open valley land, and scattered clouds in a blue sky. — Rocky Mountain ridges and forested valley under scattered clouds.

1973 Colorado Springs-area mountain view on 8mm film, showing layered ridges, shadowed forested foothills, pale green valley areas, and broad cloud formations overhead. — Layered mountain ridges beneath a bright clouded sky.

1973 8mm travel footage frame from the Colorado Springs area, with a soft mountain panorama, darker tree-covered slopes, open green land, and large white clouds across the sky. — Soft mountain panorama with forested slopes and open valley land.

1973 8mm home-movie frame of the Rocky Mountain landscape near Colorado Springs, showing forested hills in the foreground, distant ridges, valley terrain, and scattered white clouds. — Forested hills and distant Rocky Mountain ridges.

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