Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Man Waving on Lake Dock

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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 1973 home movie footage from Colorado Springs, Colorado, showing a man standing on a wooden dock by a sparkling lake. He wears a plaid shirt and dark pants, smiling and waving at the camera. The background features a sunlit lakeside landscape with trees, distant houses, and forested mountains under a bright sky. The clip has the characteristic color saturation and grain of 8mm film, with natural sunlight reflecting off the water. This authentic archival footage captures a nostalgic summer moment, ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 120961727

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: 1970s Colorado home-movie footage suited to requests for lakeside leisure, summer travel, and a personal greeting moment on 8mm film.
Period detail: The clip may show early 1970s casual vacation clothing and home-movie framing, with a plaid shirt, dock setting, and saturated outdoor color consistent with the stated 1973 source metadata.
Home-movie behavior: A man stands casually on a small wooden dock and waves toward the camera, giving the footage an unstaged family-travel quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in a plaid shirt, a wooden dock, sparkling lake water, shoreline trees, distant houses, and forested mountains beyond the lake.
Film character: The 8mm image has pronounced grain, saturated blue-purple water tones, bright sun glints, slight softness, and a handheld home-movie exposure feel.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, memory beat, greeting cutaway, or transition into a 1970s lake vacation sequence.
Historical context: The scene presents a relaxed outdoor leisure moment in Colorado Springs, with the lake, dock, trees, and mountain backdrop conveying a residential or vacation lakeside environment.
Research note: A recognizable adult face is visible, so likeness review may be needed, while no logos, minors, music, or clearly identifiable private-property interiors are visible in the provided frames.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1973 Colorado Springs lake dock home movie, man waving by lake 8mm, 1970s Colorado vacation footage, and vintage lakeside greeting film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1973 Colorado Springs or Colorado lake footage, and then with broader 1970s vacation, dock, and family greeting material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing a man in a plaid shirt standing on a wooden dock beside sparkling lake water with trees, distant houses, and mountains behind him. — Man stands on a lakeside dock.

1973 Colorado Springs lakeside frame with a man standing on the dock facing the camera, water glinting in sunlight, and trees and mountain slopes across the lake. — Man faces the camera on the dock.

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie still of a man standing near a dock post on a lakeside platform, with rippled water, trees, houses, and mountain terrain in the distance. — Man waits beside the dock post.

1973 Colorado Springs frame showing the man raising one hand in a wave from the dock, with sparkling lake water, shoreline trees, distant houses, and mountains visible behind him. — Man waves from the dock.

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