Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Mining Old Historic Mountainous Rock

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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 mountain mining operation under a bright blue sky. The scene features a large mine shaft structure, piles of excavated rock, and a wooden utility pole, capturing the industrial landscape of a historic gold mining site. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight camera movement, with a brief cut to an abandoned two-story building with classical pillars, suggesting a ghost town or historic district. This authentic archival footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century American mining history.

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: 120960825

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: This brief Colorado Springs-area 1973 8mm clip can support documentary or educational requests for 1970s visitor-shot views of historic mining landscapes and adjacent abandoned architecture in the American West.
Period detail: Visible period clues include the amateur 8mm color rendering, handheld framing, utility pole, rough mine works, and a small visitor figure near an old columned building, while the specific site should be confirmed before naming any landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, observing the mining structure and then pausing on an abandoned building rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: The frames show a dark mine shaft structure, rock piles, a wooden utility pole, mountainous terrain, a pale two-story building with columns, open windows, grass, and a small person near the entrance steps.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm color grain, blue-purple color shift, soft focus, uneven exposure, gate edges, and slight handheld movement that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, transitional insert, or memory beat for historic mining, western travel, ghost-town visits, or 1970s amateur documentation.
Historical context: The imagery places industrial mining remains and abandoned architecture within a mountainous Colorado setting, suggesting how historic extraction sites were encountered as visitor destinations by the early 1970s.
Research note: A small person is visible and the building exterior may require property or location review, while copyright, likeness, and property permissions should be assessed separately before publication.
Research search match: Useful researcher searches include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm mining footage, Colorado historic mine home movie, 1970s ghost town building, and amateur film of western mining remains.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs material, and then with broader 1970s mining, ghost town, abandoned building, or Rocky Mountain travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs-area 8mm frame showing a dark mine shaft structure amid excavated rock, a wooden utility pole, and mountainous terrain under a strong blue sky. — Mine works and rock piles in mountainous terrain.

1973 Colorado Springs-area home-movie frame with a mine structure, rocky spoil piles, a utility pole, and low mountains in the background. — Rocky mine site with utility pole and hills.

1973 Colorado Springs-area 8mm frame showing an old two-story columned building with open windows, hillside scenery, and a small person standing near the front steps. — Columned abandoned building with visitor figure.

1973 Colorado Springs-area home-movie frame of an old columned building with empty window openings, grass in front, distant hills, and a small visitor figure at the steps. — Visitor near an old columned building.

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