Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Catching The Castles With Flags Waving

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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 1973 captures a stone castle tower in Colorado Springs, Colorado, under a clear blue sky. The camera tilts upward, revealing the textured stonework, narrow slit windows, and crenellated battlements. A Colorado state flag and an American flag flutter in the wind atop the tower, their fabric catching the breeze. The film exhibits natural grain and color saturation typical of 8mm home movies from the era, offering authentic archival footage of a local landmark.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 120961429

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip.

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 requests needing 1970s 8mm Colorado Springs landmark footage, especially editorial inserts about travel, regional architecture, flags, or American home-movie views of public places.
Period detail: The visible cues are period 8mm color stock, handheld framing, stone castle-style architecture, crenellations, narrow slit windows, and flags waving against a clear sky.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, with the camera looking up at the tower to register its height, texture, and flags rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: The frames show rough stone tower walls, narrow vertical windows, crenellated battlements, blue sky, a flagpole, and the Colorado and American flags moving in wind.
Film character: The footage carries visible 8mm grain, saturated blue sky, slight handheld movement, soft focus, and modest exposure variation typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short establishing cutaway, regional landmark insert, travel-memory beat, or transition into material about Colorado Springs or historic-style architecture.
Historical context: As a 1973 home-movie view, it documents how a visitor recorded a castle-like Colorado Springs landmark and its state and national flags without showing crowds or ceremonies.
Research note: No people, faces, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm castle tower, vintage home movie flags waving, Colorado landmark stone tower, and 1970s American travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs footage, and then with broader 1970s travel, landmark, architecture, or flag imagery.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame looking up at a rough stone castle-style tower with narrow vertical windows and crenellated top edges. — Stone tower wall and narrow windows.

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing the upper part of a crenellated stone tower with flags waving from a pole above it. — Flags above the crenellated tower.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame with a tight upward angle on a castle-style stone tower face, showing stacked masonry and narrow slit windows. — Upward view of stonework and windows.

1973 Colorado Springs frame showing a tall section of rough stone castle-style tower with multiple narrow windows and a small amount of sky at the edge. — Stone tower face with vertical windows.

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