Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: A Road Trip To The Mountains

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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 family stops during a road trip to visit Battle Mountain, a historic gold mining site. The clip shows a golden 1970s sedan parked on a dusty roadside with a woman in a bright orange top and blue pants leaning on the car. In the background, a rugged, arid landscape features a large mining operation with a prominent headframe. The scene is captured on grainy, color-saturated film, evoking a strong sense of 1970s Americana and nostalgia. A historical marker provides context about the area's mining history, dated 1960. This authentic archival footage is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content about mid-century American travel and mining heritage.

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: 120960763

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

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 Colorado home-movie footage for productions needing a brief road-trip stop, mining heritage marker, or Western U.S. travel insert.
Period detail: The golden sedan, bright casual clothing, color 8mm texture, and roadside historical marker support a 1970s visitor perspective at Battle Mountain in Colorado.
Home-movie behavior: The clip captures an unstaged tourist pause, with a woman leaning on a parked car before the camera turns to the Battle Mountain sign.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a gold 1970s sedan, an adult woman in an orange top, dusty roadside ground, arid hills, mining structures, timber sign posts, and a Battle Mountain historical marker.
Film character: The footage has saturated color, soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing characteristic of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, travel transition, historical-marker insert, or memory beat within a sequence about Colorado tourism, mining towns, or family road trips.
Historical context: The marker text places Battle Mountain within regional mining history, while the parked car and visitor stance show how historic sites were encountered through 1970s automobile tourism.
Research note: People are visible and may require likeness review, while the historical marker and mining landscape should still be checked separately for copyright, access, location, and property considerations.
Research search match: Useful researcher phrases include 1970s Colorado road trip 8mm, Battle Mountain historical marker, Colorado mining heritage home movie, and vintage family travel roadside stop.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Colorado Springs or 1973 Colorado travel footage, and then with broader mining heritage, roadside tourism, or Western U.S. road-trip material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado home-movie frame showing a gold sedan stopped near Battle Mountain, with an adult woman in an orange top by the car and mining structures in the arid background. — Roadside stop below mining structures.

Battle Mountain historical marker in Colorado, filmed close enough to show the title and mining-history text, with rough timber supports and dry hillside behind it. — Battle Mountain marker on timber posts.

1973 home-movie view of the Battle Mountain historical marker, framed with its wooden support structure and the dry roadside landscape around it. — Historical marker beside the road.

Close 8mm frame of the Battle Mountain historical marker, emphasizing the sign title, weathered board, and text about the Cripple Creek-Victor mining district. — Close view of Battle Mountain sign text.

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