Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: A Glorious Sunny Day By The Lake In 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, capturing a serene lakeside landscape. The clip features a calm lake in the foreground with a sandy shore, a line of green trees, and distant mountains under a hazy purple-tinged sky. Small white buildings are visible along the shoreline. The film exhibits characteristic grain, color shifts, and a soft focus typical of Super 8 film from the era, with subtle camera movement suggesting a handheld recording. The overall mood is nostalgic and peaceful, evoking a classic American summer day.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120961587

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

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 as 1970s Colorado 8mm landscape footage for documentary sequences needing a quiet lakeside establishing view or regional travel atmosphere.
Period detail: The clip may show period home-movie color rendering and a sparsely developed shoreline rather than clearly identifiable 1973-specific buildings or events.
Home-movie behavior: The framing has the observational feel of a visitor pausing to record scenery from across the water without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a calm lake, sandy foreground shore, tree-lined bank, small white shoreline structures, distant mountain ridges, pale clouds, and a purple-blue sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, mild exposure variation, and gentle handheld instability as part of its archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, reflective transition, regional cutaway, or quiet memory beat between more active home-movie scenes.
Historical context: The view provides a home-movie record of outdoor recreation scenery near Colorado Springs, with mountains and lakeshore presented as the main subject.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or location identification should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1970s 8mm Colorado Springs lake footage, Colorado mountain lake home movie, or vintage Colorado landscape cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Colorado Springs 1973 material, and finally with broader 1970s lake, mountain, and travel scenery.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 8mm home-movie view near Colorado Springs showing a calm lake, sandy shoreline, trees, small white structures, and hazy mountain ridges. — Lake and mountain shoreline view.

Colorado Springs-area lakeside landscape from 1973 with blue water in the foreground, a tree-lined shore, small white buildings, and soft mountain ridges beyond. — Tree-lined lakeshore below distant ridges.

Soft 8mm frame of a Colorado Springs lakeshore in 1973, with water, sandy ground, shoreline trees, a small white structure, and hazy mountains behind. — Small shoreline structure beside the lake.

Wide 1973 Colorado Springs-area lake view with a low sandy shore, dark tree line, small white building, hazy mountain backdrop, and pale clouds in a purple-tinged sky. — Wide lakeside landscape with mountains.

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