Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Across The Water And In The Valley Sits A Small Mountain Community

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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 captures a scenic mountain valley in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The clip opens with a wide view across a calm lake, revealing a small community nestled in the valley below a towering, forested mountain. The image, framed by dark borders typical of 8mm film, shows a distinct purple color cast and film grain, with houses and trees dotting the landscape. The camera slowly zooms in, bringing the valley settlement into sharper focus, showcasing the natural beauty and quiet life of a mid-century American mountain town.

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: 120961746

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 requests needing 1970s 8mm Colorado mountain-town atmosphere, scenic lakefront context, or quiet valley community establishing material for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The footage may show 1973 visitor-shot Colorado Springs scenery, with small buildings, roads, open green areas, and a mountain backdrop visible through the soft color response of 8mm film.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged quality of a traveler pausing across water to record a distant mountain community rather than focusing on people or events.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a calm lake edge, clustered trees, open valley fields, scattered buildings, roads, rocky slopes, forested mountain terrain, and dark 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The scan carries noticeable grain, a purple-blue color cast, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet border artifacts that reflect its original small-gauge home-movie source.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, scenic transition, regional cutaway, or memory beat for a Western U.S. mountain setting.
Historical context: The view documents a small settled valley below a mountain landscape, offering visual context for leisure travel and residential development around a Colorado mountain setting without showing identifiable people.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but distant private buildings and landscape location claims should still be reviewed separately from copyright status and property considerations.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1970s 8mm Colorado Springs mountain valley, vintage home movie lake view, Colorado mountain community footage, and Super 8 style scenic town landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs material, then with broader 1970s mountain, lake, valley, or small-community scenic footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 8mm view in Colorado Springs showing water in the foreground, trees and small buildings in a valley, and a forested mountain slope beyond. — Lakefront view toward a mountain valley community.

Colorado Springs 8mm frame with a calm water edge, valley trees, scattered buildings, and a broad forested mountain rising behind them. — Valley settlement below a mountain slope.

Zoomed 1973 home-movie frame showing trees, open green land, distant buildings, and a rocky forested mountain backdrop in Colorado Springs. — Closer look at buildings and trees in the valley.

1973 8mm frame from Colorado Springs showing a closer valley view with trees, scattered buildings, road lines, and a forested mountain slope behind. — Zoomed valley view with distant buildings.

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