Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Recreational Vehicle Driving Through Mountain Resort Area

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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 Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, in 1973, showing a white recreational vehicle driving through a mountainous resort area. The RV moves along a paved road beside a stone-faced building, with a motorcycle parked nearby and distant mountains visible under a bright sky. The scene captures a classic 1970s road trip moment, with natural sunlight and the characteristic grain and color palette of Super 8 film. The footage offers authentic archival material for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120961833

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: This 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm clip supports archive requests for 1970s American road travel, mountain resort exteriors, and recreational vehicle movement as documentary or period-setting footage.
Period detail: Visible period clues include the boxy white recreational vehicle, paved lodge or hotel parking area, parked motorcycle, low-rise resort buildings, and the soft color response associated with 1970s home-movie film.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged traveler viewpoint, watching an RV pull away through a resort parking area during what appears to be a casual vacation stop.
What appears in frame: The frames show a white RV, stone-faced building wall, parked motorcycle, paved driveway, low-rise lodging, parked cars, bright sunlight, and layered mountains in the distance.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows visible grain, soft focus, mild exposure bloom in the bright sky, and handheld framing that gives the scene authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short travel insert, road-trip transition, mountain-resort cutaway, or memory beat within a 1970s vacation sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually situates recreational auto travel in a mountain lodging environment without establishing a named resort, landmark, or broader event beyond the supplied Colorado Springs metadata.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still assess copyright status separately from any location or property-identification considerations.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1973 Colorado Springs home movie, 1970s RV road trip, Super 8 mountain resort parking lot, and vintage recreational vehicle driving footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs or Colorado mountain travel footage, and then with broader 1970s vacation, roadside lodging, and RV travel themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing a white RV close to the camera beside a stone-faced resort building, with distant mountains under bright sky. — RV passing a mountain resort building.

1973 Colorado Springs frame with the white recreational vehicle moving away through a paved mountain resort parking area, with lodging buildings and parked cars visible. — RV moving away through the parking area.

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing the RV angled away from the camera in a bright paved resort area, with parked cars, lodging, and layered mountains behind it. — RV turns through the sunlit resort drive.

1973 Colorado Springs frame showing the white RV farther away in the resort parking area, framed by low-rise buildings, parked cars, and a hazy mountain backdrop. — RV receding toward the mountain backdrop.

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