Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Grand Hotel With American Flag And Classic Cars

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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 film footage from 1973 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, showcasing a grand stone hotel with a prominent tower and American flag against a backdrop of rugged mountains. The scene captures a bustling street with classic American cars from the era parked and driving along the road, framed by lush green trees. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, conveying a nostalgic, authentic home movie aesthetic of mid-1970s Americana.

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: 120961675

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: This 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm clip supports archival requests for 1970s American city travel, mountain-region streetscapes, and exterior hotel or landmark establishing shots.
Period detail: Visible era clues include large 1970s American cars, a street-facing hotel-like building with a tower and flagpole, and a mountain backdrop consistent with the supplied Colorado Springs metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective from across the street, holding briefly on a notable building and surrounding traffic rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: The frames show a multi-story stone or stucco building with a tower, an American flag, parked and moving cars, roadside trees, a street foreground, and mountains behind the town.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, blue-purple color shift, slight exposure fluctuation, and handheld framing that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, travel-memory cutaway, or transition into a 1970s Colorado Springs sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually places automobile-centered urban tourism or local travel within a mountain city setting, without showing identifiable people or a specific public event.
Research note: No people, children, or visible brands are apparent in the frames, but the building exterior and flag should still be reviewed for property, location identification, and copyright considerations separate from likeness rights.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm street scene, 1970s Colorado hotel exterior, American flag mountain town footage, and vintage cars outside landmark building.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs exteriors, and then with 1970s American travel, hotel, street, flag, or mountain-town footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs street view showing a towered hotel-like building with an American flag, parked and moving cars, roadside trees, and mountains in the background. — Towered building and traffic below the mountains.

1973 Colorado Springs frame of a towered building and flag beyond a street with classic cars, leafy trees, and low mountains in the distance. — Flag over a 1970s street scene.

Soft 1973 8mm view in Colorado Springs with the towered building centered behind trees, cars along the street, a flagpole, and mountains beyond. — Soft home-movie view of the building and street.

1973 Colorado Springs view with the towered building slightly closer in frame, an American flag overhead, cars at street level, trees, and mountains behind. — Tower, flag, cars, and mountain backdrop.

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