Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Blue City Truck Passing Golden Car Parked Near Abandoned Building

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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 golden 1970s American sedan is parked on a quiet street, viewed through a window frame. In the background, a weathered, abandoned building with boarded windows stands beside a grassy hill. A blue City of Victor Street & Water Department truck, loaded with gravel, passes by on the road. The scene captures a moment of everyday life with authentic film grain, warm color tones, and a nostalgic, documentary feel.

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: 120960928

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: Useful for 1970s documentary edits needing a brief Colorado street cutaway with parked domestic car, municipal work truck activity, and weathered urban surroundings.
Period detail: The large American sedan, blue municipal dump truck, road sign styling, and warm 8mm color may show early-1970s street life consistent with the supplied 1973 Colorado Springs metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint from behind a window or dark frame, catching ordinary traffic and street work as it passes through the camera's field of view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a golden parked sedan, a blue City of Victor Street and Water Department truck, a gravel load, a roadside sign, a fire hydrant, boarded windows, a grassy slope, and worn masonry buildings.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries visible grain, soft focus, mild exposure variation, warm color, and contact-frame edging that reinforce its physical home-movie origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or observational cutaway for small-town transportation, municipal labor, urban decline, or 1970s memory sequences.
Historical context: The scene places everyday vehicles and public-works movement against aging buildings and a quiet street, offering visual context for ordinary urban streetscapes without asserting a specific event.
Research note: People appear in vehicles and municipal lettering or identifiers are visible, so users should review likeness, trademark or insignia, and property-context issues separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1973 Colorado 8mm street footage, Colorado Springs 1970s parked car, municipal dump truck passing, abandoned building street scene, and home movie urban traffic.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs footage, then with 1970s street, transportation, municipal work, or weathered-building material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In supported 1973 Colorado Springs home-movie footage, a golden American sedan sits near a curb while worn buildings, a grassy slope, and a yellow fire hydrant appear across the street. — Parked golden sedan near worn streetfront buildings.

The front of a golden 1970s sedan fills the lower frame while the street, hydrant, grassy bank, and weathered boarded building remain visible behind it. — Golden car in foreground with boarded buildings beyond.

A golden American sedan remains parked in the foreground, seen from behind a dark frame, with boarded openings, masonry walls, and a quiet roadway in the background. — Parked sedan against a weathered urban backdrop.

A blue City of Victor Street and Water Department dump truck loaded with gravel passes through the street scene, with the golden car edge, roadside sign, and worn buildings visible nearby. — Blue municipal truck passing the parked car.

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