Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Mining Site With Derrick On Hillside

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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, showing a rugged, arid landscape with a large excavation site on a hillside. The clip features industrial mining structures, including a prominent derrick and piles of earth, under a bright blue sky. A utility pole and a small white sign are visible in the foreground, with the camera panning slowly across the scene. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, color saturation, and slight motion blur, capturing a nostalgic, archival view of mid-20th century industrial activity in the American West.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120960819

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: Useful for archive requests needing early 1970s Colorado Springs-area industrial landscape footage as a documentary cutaway or establishing detail.
Period detail: The frames show a 1973 8mm view with utility poles, graded hillsides, rough excavation areas, and derrick-like industrial structures that may indicate a mining or quarry site.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the hillside from a roadside or overlook, giving the clip the value of an unstaged visitor-shot record rather than a planned industrial film.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dry hills, exposed earth cuts, a dark derrick or headframe, a utility pole, small low buildings, a foreground sign, and bright open sky.
Film character: The footage has saturated color, visible 8mm grain, soft focus, handheld drift, and mild motion blur that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief industrial cutaway, regional transition, or memory beat connecting Western landscape with extractive activity.
Historical context: The clip visually places industrial earthwork within an arid Front Range landscape without identifying the operator, property, or specific site from the frames alone.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any location or property permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1970s Colorado Springs 8mm industrial landscape, mining derrick hillside, Western excavation site, or vintage home movie mining cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs footage, and then with broader archival material on Western mining landscapes or roadside industrial views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing a dry excavated hillside with low structures, a small foreground sign, utility poles, and bright blue sky. — Excavated hillside and sign below open sky.

1973 Colorado Springs view across a rugged hillside excavation with a utility pole, small buildings, foreground sign, and distant dark industrial structure. — Utility pole and hillside excavation.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame with a dark derrick-like structure, graded hillside, utility pole, low wall or buildings, rough foreground earth, and blue sky. — Derrick-like structure on the hillside site.

1973 Colorado Springs frame showing a roadside view of an industrial hillside with a derrick-like structure, utility pole, exposed earth, low structures, and open blue sky. — Industrial hillside under bright sky.

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