Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: A Man In A Blue Shirt Directing Line Of 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 blue shirt directs a line of donkeys along a dusty road in a rugged, arid landscape. The scene features classic 1970s vehicles, including a white station wagon and a purple car, with a man walking among the animals. The footage captures a candid moment of human-animal interaction under bright sunshine, with rolling hills and a quarry in the background. The film exhibits authentic Super 8 grain, color saturation, and slight motion blur, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century Americana and 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: 120960690

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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

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 documentary or educational requests needing 1970s Colorado home-movie footage of roadside animal handling, tourism-adjacent rural travel, or human-animal interaction in an arid Western landscape.
Period detail: The 1970s setting is supported by the clip metadata and by visible period vehicles, casual clothing, and the 8mm color home-movie look, while specific vehicle makes or roadside facilities should not be asserted from the frames alone.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has unstaged visitor-shot value as a man in a blue shirt walks among and appears to guide donkeys near parked cars while the camera observes from a casual roadside position.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include several donkeys, a man in a blue shirt, a purple car, a white station wagon, dusty pavement, hills, a roadside signboard or post, and quarry-like slopes in the background.
Film character: The scan shows warm color, visible 8mm grain, soft focus, mild motion blur, and uneven contact-sheet framing that retain the texture of physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, travel cutaway, roadside transition, or memory beat linking Western landscape, animals, and 1970s leisure movement.
Historical context: The scene reflects a casual roadside encounter with pack animals or donkeys in the Colorado Springs area, with cars and dry foothills framing a small moment of everyday travel rather than a formal event.
Research note: A visible adult may require likeness review depending on use, and copyright, location, property, and animal-use considerations should be evaluated separately because the frames do not provide clearance guarantees.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm home movie donkeys, 1970s roadside animals Colorado, vintage Western travel footage with cars, and man guiding donkeys in arid landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs material, and then with broader themes of 1970s Western road travel, animals, and dry mountain landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1973 Colorado Springs home-movie footage, several donkeys stand near a purple car on a paved roadside below dry hills and a cloudy sky. — Donkeys beside a roadside car in dry foothills.

A man in a blue shirt stands or walks among donkeys near a white station wagon, a small roadside structure, and arid hills in the Colorado Springs 1973 home-movie scene. — Man in blue shirt near donkeys and parked vehicles.

The man in the blue shirt is seen from behind as donkeys move across a dusty paved area near a white station wagon, signpost, and rocky hills. — Man watches donkeys crossing the roadside area.

Several donkeys gather near the man in a blue shirt beside a road, with a white station wagon, roadside post, and dry Colorado Springs hills visible behind them. — Donkeys gather near the man at the roadside.

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