Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: A Man Stopping In His Classic Car To Check Donkeys

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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. A man in a classic car stops on a remote, sun-drenched mountain road, surrounded by rolling hills and scattered trees. Several donkeys gather around the vehicle, some grazing on the roadside grass while others approach curiously. The scene captures a quiet, unhurried moment of human-animal interaction in a rugged, natural landscape under a bright blue sky with fluffy white clouds. The film exhibits characteristic grain and color saturation of 1970s home movies.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120960675

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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: This 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm home-movie clip helps satisfy requests for rural Western roadside travel, vintage car tourism, and gentle human-animal encounters in 1970s American landscape footage.
Period detail: The older passenger car, color 8mm stock, casual roadside stop, and clothing visible on the man support a 1970s home-movie setting without identifying a specific make or landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged value of a traveler pausing beside a mountain road as donkeys gather around the car and graze nearby.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a parked classic car, several donkeys, a man standing near the roadside, rolling hills, scattered trees, wildflowers, paved road edge, and a bright clouded sky.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and a handheld home-movie steadiness typical of amateur travel filming.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, memory beat, or transition for 1970s Colorado road travel, roadside wildlife encounters, or quiet rural tourism.
Historical context: The scene reflects a casual automobile-based travel moment in a sparsely developed mountain or foothill setting, with people and animals sharing the roadside space.
Research note: A person is visible and may require likeness review, while no clear logos or private property markings are legible; copyright, location, and any property or animal-access permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1970s Colorado 8mm home movie donkeys by roadside, vintage car mountain road travel, and Colorado Springs animal encounter footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs or Colorado travel footage, and then with broader roadside animal or Western landscape home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing several donkeys gathered around a parked older car on a rural mountain road, with a man visible near the animals and hills behind them. — Donkeys gather around a stopped car on a rural road.

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame with donkeys clustered near a stopped classic car on a paved roadside, a man partly visible, and open hilly country beyond. — Roadside donkeys stand near the stopped car.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing donkeys beside and behind a parked car on a rural road, with a man near the left side and open foothills under a bright sky. — Donkeys graze near the road and car.

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame with a light-colored donkey moving from a stopped car, other donkeys at the roadside, a man near the left, and rolling hills in the distance. — A donkey moves away from the stopped car.

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