Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Loop Footage Of Two Historic Buildings

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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, in 1973, showing two distinct buildings. The first building is a weathered, two-story structure with classical columns and broken windows, appearing abandoned. The second is a multi-story brick commercial building with arched windows and a vintage purple car parked nearby. The clip captures the nostalgic atmosphere of a mid-20th century American town, with authentic film grain and color saturation typical of 8mm 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: 120960842

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: Yes
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: Archival home-movie footage suited to requests for 1970s Colorado Springs street architecture, aging commercial buildings, and urban memory cutaways for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The frames may show 1973-era Colorado Springs streetscape details including older brick storefront architecture, stop signs, utility poles, painted business signs, and a vintage parked car.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot home-movie viewpoint, moving from an abandoned-looking columned building to a street-corner brick commercial block without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a weathered two-story building with columns and broken windows, a multi-story brick corner building, arched upper windows, storefront signs, stop signs, utility poles, street pavement, and a parked vintage car.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries visible grain, saturated color, uneven exposure, soft focus, and slight handheld framing that support its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use the shot as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for urban change, small-city architecture, or 1970s Colorado location context.
Historical context: The footage visually documents older commercial and civic-looking buildings in a Colorado Springs streetscape, with signs of vacancy and everyday street infrastructure visible but no specific landmark identification confirmed.
Research note: Human figures may be present at small scale and business signage is visible, so copyright, trademark, likeness, and property-context review should be handled separately before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm street footage, abandoned building with columns, vintage brick commercial building, 1970s American town architecture, and home movie urban cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs material, and finally with footage of historic buildings, downtown streets, abandoned structures, or 1970s American urban scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing a weathered two-story columned building with broken windows, grass in front, distant hills, and a small human figure near the entrance. — Weathered columned building with broken windows.

1973 Colorado Springs street-corner frame showing a multi-story brick commercial building with arched windows, storefront signage, stop signs, utility poles, and a vintage car parked nearby. — Brick commercial block at a street corner.

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame with a brick corner building filling the view, showing arched upper windows, lower storefronts, street signs, poles, and a parked car at the curb. — Brick storefront building with street signs and car.

1973 Colorado Springs frame showing the same multi-story brick commercial building from a slightly shifted angle, with arched windows, visible shop signs, stop signs, utility poles, and a purple vintage car. — Street-corner brick building with parked vintage car.

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