Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Cabins And Structures On A Hill During The

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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 rustic mountain settlement. The clip captures several wooden cabins and structures nestled on a grassy hillside under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds. The view, likely filmed from a moving vehicle, reveals a rugged, undeveloped landscape with utility poles and a prominent quarry face in the background. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 color saturation and grain, offering a nostalgic glimpse of a remote community.

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: 120961010

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: 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: 1970s Colorado home-movie footage suited to documentary or educational sequences needing a brief roadside view of rustic hillside buildings and a mountain-area settlement.
Period detail: The frames may show early-1970s visitor or roadside views, with small wooden structures, utility poles, simple signage, and a visible quarry-like cut on the hillside supporting the stated Colorado Springs setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged traveler’s glance from a moving vehicle, recording ordinary roadside scenery rather than a composed commercial view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include cabins on a grassy slope, rocky ground, utility poles, trees, a roadside sign, parked cars, a pale building wall, and a bright sky with scattered clouds.
Film character: The 8mm material shows saturated color, soft focus, gate edges, mild exposure shifts, and handheld or vehicle-motion blur that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short geographic insert, travel transition, memory beat, or cutaway establishing a small mountain settlement near Colorado Springs.
Historical context: The footage provides visual context for roadside and hillside development in a Colorado mountain-adjacent area without supporting claims about the specific site’s history or ownership.
Research note: No people are visible, but signage, roadside businesses or attractions, and private or identifiable structures should be reviewed separately for trademark, property, and location-identification concerns.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1970s Colorado Springs 8mm roadside cabins, Colorado mountain settlement home movie, rustic hillside buildings Super 8, and vintage Colorado travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1973 Colorado Springs material, and then with broader 1970s mountain-road, cabin, small-town, or roadside-attraction footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing small wooden hillside structures, utility poles, rocky ground, and a pale exposed slope in the background. — Rustic buildings on a hillside near Colorado Springs.

1973 Colorado Springs roadside view of cabins or small structures on a rocky hillside, with trees, utility poles, and a quarry-like face beyond. — Cabins and structures along a rocky hillside.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing a roadside sign, trees, a light-colored building, and small structures higher on the hill. — Roadside sign and hillside buildings.

1973 Colorado Springs roadside frame with an identifiable sign, a pale building, trees, parked cars, and small hillside structures above. — Signage and buildings below a hillside settlement.

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