Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Driving Down The Road Of A Mountain Valley

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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 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, showing a scenic drive through a mountain valley. The clip opens with a view of a lakeside resort building nestled among green trees, with a prominent mountain range in the background under a clear sky. The scene transitions to a street-level perspective, capturing a large stone building with a tower, likely a hotel or landmark, as cars drive along the road. The film exhibits characteristic 8mm grain, color shifts, and a nostalgic, authentic home movie quality, evoking mid-20th century Americana and travel memories.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120961652

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 for 1970s archival requests needing Colorado Springs travel footage, mountain-valley road views, or scenic Americana inserts from original 8mm home movies.
Period detail: The frames show period road traffic, resort-like architecture, and soft 1970s color 8mm rendering in a Colorado Springs mountain setting supported by the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage carries a visitor-shot travel perspective, moving from a distant lakeside or roadside view toward a street-level drive through town.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a mountain range, tree-lined grounds, a low light-colored building, a roadway, parked and moving cars, and a larger stone building seen from the street.
Film character: The clip has visible 8mm grain, slight softness, handheld framing, color shift toward blue and violet, and contact-print edge artifacts that support its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief travel insert, road-trip transition, location-establishing cutaway, or memory beat within a 1970s Colorado sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents a tourist or family-travel view of Colorado Springs with mountains, roadside development, and automobile movement as the main social context.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but building identity, property status, and copyright clearance should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Researchers might find this through searches for 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm footage, mountain valley road home movie, vintage Colorado travel film, or 1970s scenic driving footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1973 Colorado Springs material, and then with broader 1970s mountain travel or American road-trip footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing distant mountains above green trees and a low light-colored building near a road or water edge. — Mountains behind a tree-lined building.

Colorado Springs travel footage frame with a low building partly hidden by trees and a broad mountain backdrop in soft 8mm color. — Tree-lined grounds below the mountains.

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing a distant mountain slope, trees, and a low roadside or resort-like building rendered with blue-violet film shift. — Mountain view over trees and low buildings.

Street-level 1973 Colorado Springs frame showing cars along a road, trees on both sides, mountains in the distance, and a large stone building ahead. — Street-level drive toward a large building.

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