Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Beachfront Views From A Coastal Town With

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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, showcasing a serene lakeside scene with a row of green trees lining a sandy shore. In the background, the majestic snow-capped Rocky Mountains rise under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds. The distinctive purple color cast and film grain are characteristic of 8mm home movie film from the era. The camera pans slightly, revealing a building complex nestled among the trees along the water's edge, capturing a peaceful summer day by the lake.

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: 120961642

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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: This 1973 8mm Colorado Springs clip supports archival requests for 1970s Rocky Mountain leisure, lakeside recreation, and scenic travel cutaways in documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The scene may show early-1970s visitor-shot recreation infrastructure, with a sandy lakeshore, rows of mature trees, distant low buildings, and cars set against the Rocky Mountain backdrop.
Home-movie behavior: The footage carries an unstaged tourist perspective, lingering on the lake, shoreline trees, distant buildings, and mountains rather than organized activity or posed subjects.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blue lake, sandy shore, tree-lined waterfront, distant white buildings, small parked cars, snow-marked mountains, scattered clouds, and a few tiny human figures near the waterline.
Film character: The 8mm image has visible grain, soft focus, slight handheld drift, high daylight exposure, and a strong purple-blue color shift typical of aged home-movie film stock.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a scenic insert, travel transition, establishing cutaway, or reflective memory beat for 1970s Colorado vacation material.
Historical context: The clip documents a lakeside public landscape near Colorado Springs as seen by a home-movie camera, emphasizing recreation, open shoreline, trees, and mountain scenery without showing identifiable events.
Research note: People appear only as very small distant figures, but likeness, location, copyright, and any property-related considerations should still be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm lake footage, 1970s Rocky Mountain vacation home movie, Colorado lakeshore with mountains, and vintage Colorado tourism cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs or Colorado mountain-lake footage, and then with broader 1970s vacation, tourism, and scenic waterfront material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 8mm Colorado Springs footage showing a sandy lakeshore, rows of green trees, blue water, and hazy snow-marked Rocky Mountains under scattered clouds. — Trees along a lakeshore with mountains beyond.

A 1973 Colorado Springs lakeside view shows trees along a pale sandy shore, blue water behind them, and layered Rocky Mountain ridges beneath bright cloud cover. — Tree-lined shore below distant mountains.

The frame shows Colorado Springs lakeside buildings and parked cars partly screened by trees, with blue water in the foreground and hazy mountains rising behind. — Buildings and trees along the water below the mountains.

A distant 1973 Colorado Springs waterfront view includes blue lake water, pale sand, tree-shaded low buildings, small cars, and purple-cast Rocky Mountain slopes in the background. — Waterfront structures beneath a broad mountain ridge.

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