Colorado Springs Colorado USA-1973: Historic Hotel with Bell Tower and Automobiles in Colorado Springs

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationColorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 · Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
StatusDirect License

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Historic Hotel with Bell Tower and Automobiles in... — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1973, showing a drive toward a large, historic hotel with a prominent bell tower. The clip captures classic mid-century automobiles on a street lined with trees under a cloudy sky, with a distinctive traffic light system visible. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic look of 8mm archival footage, offering a nostalgic glimpse into 1970s Americana and daily life in the region.

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: 120961706

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: 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 archive requests for early-1970s American street travel, historic hotel exteriors, and quiet home-movie cutaways with a small backyard animal moment.
Period detail: The visible period clues include older automobiles, a suspended traffic light over a city street, 8mm color rendering, and a large bell-tower building that appears consistent with the supplied Colorado Springs location metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot quality, moving from a drive-by view of a large building to handheld backyard observations of a small squirrel on a wooden fence.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large multi-story building with a tower, street traffic, trees, a wooden fence, a house beyond the fence, a squirrel, and shaded tree trunks.
Film character: The scan shows natural 8mm grain, soft focus, slight color fading, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that preserve the home-movie texture of the original film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, transition from urban travel to domestic nature, or a memory beat within a 1970s Colorado Springs sequence.
Historical context: The footage offers a small visual record of 1970s Colorado Springs everyday surroundings, combining street architecture and automobiles with a residential yard scene.
Research note: People are flagged as visible in the clip metadata, while no logos or audible music are indicated; copyright, likeness, and any identifiable property concerns should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches might include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm street scene, 1970s Colorado historic hotel exterior, home movie squirrel on fence, and vintage American travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs material, and then with 1970s American road travel, hotel exterior, or backyard wildlife footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Colorado Springs 1973 home-movie frame showing a large multi-story building with a bell tower, cars at an intersection, and trees under a cloudy sky. — Towered building and traffic in Colorado Springs.
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1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame of a squirrel sitting on a wooden fence, with leafy branches and a light-colored house in the background. — Squirrel on a backyard fence.
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The handheld 8mm frame shows a squirrel balanced on a wooden fence in a shaded yard, with trees and a neighboring house visible beyond. — Squirrel paused on the fence line.
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Colorado Springs home-movie frame with a squirrel on a wooden fence, dark tree trunks in the foreground, and a light-colored house partly visible through foliage. — Fence-line squirrel framed by trees.
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