Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Old Video Footage Of Beach And Monument

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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. The clip opens with a scenic view of a lake and distant mountains under a purple-tinted sky, with a small white building on the shoreline. The scene transitions to a striking mid-century modern monument with three curved concrete pillars, an American flag, and young trees against a clear blue sky. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a nostalgic, archival quality, capturing a moment of American mid-century landscape and public art.

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: 120961595

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: 1970s Colorado Springs home-movie footage suited to documentary or museum requests for regional travel views, lakeside landscape, and public monument cutaways.
Period detail: The frames may show early-1970s visitor-shot views of a mountain lake area and a mid-century modern concrete monument, with an American flag and sparse young landscaping as visible era clues.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged tourist perspective, moving from scenic shoreline observation to a brief look at a local monument from ground level.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a lake, distant mountains, a shoreline with trees, a small white structure, a concrete monument with curved supports, an American flag, young trees, and blue-purple sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries visible grain, gate borders, color shift toward purple-blue, soft focus, and slight handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, travel transition, regional memory beat, or cutaway between broader Colorado Springs sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually places leisure travel, public landscape viewing, and civic monument photography within a 1970s American home-movie context without identifying the monument beyond the supplied location metadata.
Research note: Human review should verify any people or logos flagged in the source metadata, and separate copyright review from possible likeness, trademark, or property concerns because the stills do not resolve every detail.
Research search match: Useful researcher searches include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm footage, Colorado mountain lake home movie, 1970s Colorado travel film, and mid-century monument home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 Colorado Springs material, then broader 1970s travel, mountain lake, and public monument footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing a lake, tree-lined shore, distant mountains, and a small white shoreline structure under a color-shifted sky. — Lake and mountain shoreline view.

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame of a lake before distant mountains, with trees, a small white structure, and a small light object on the water. — Shoreline and lake before mountains.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing a mid-century concrete monument with curved vertical supports, an American flag, young trees, and open sky. — Concrete monument and flag.

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame of a concrete public monument with curved supports, a nearby American flag, small trees, and a grassy foreground. — Monument with flag and young trees.

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