Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Video Recording Of Cars Passing By A Shopping Center

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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 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, showing a bustling shopping center on a clear day. The scene captures classic American cars, including a white van and a yellow sedan, parked and moving through the lot. A Safeway grocery store and other commercial buildings are visible, surrounded by trees and a hillside neighborhood in the background. The footage exhibits natural film grain, slight color fading, and a nostalgic 1970s aesthetic, viewed through a window frame with dark borders. This authentic archival clip offers a glimpse into mid-1970s suburban life and retail culture.

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: 120961855

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: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 Colorado Springs suburban retail, parking-lot traffic, and everyday American car culture as documentary B-roll or contextual cutaway material.
Period detail: The visible boxy sedans, white van, low shopping-center storefronts, and Safeway signage support a 1973 suburban commercial setting in Colorado Springs, as stated in the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational value of a home-movie view filmed from behind a dark window or structural frame, recording ordinary traffic and storefront activity without staging.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a Safeway shopping center, parked and moving cars, a white van, a yellow sedan, a low commercial strip, trees, a hillside neighborhood, and dark frame edges from the shooting position.
Film character: The 8mm image shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, mild exposure variation, and contact-sheet frame repetition that preserve the texture of physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, transition, or memory beat for 1970s shopping, car travel, suburban errands, or Colorado Springs street life.
Historical context: The view documents an everyday retail landscape with automobile-oriented access, open parking, low-rise commercial buildings, and residential hills visible beyond the stores.
Research note: Brand signage is visible and should be reviewed separately from copyright status, while no people, faces, children, private interiors, or audible music are indicated in the supplied metadata.
Research search match: Likely researcher searches include 1973 Colorado Springs shopping center, 1970s Safeway parking lot, vintage 8mm suburban traffic, and American retail home movie footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs material, and then with broader 1970s suburban shopping-center or automobile-culture footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing a shopping center parking lot with cars, a white van, Safeway signage, trees, and hillside residences in the background. — Shopping center parking lot and hillside neighborhood.

1973 Colorado Springs frame of cars and a white van near a low shopping center with Safeway signage and residential hillside beyond. — Cars outside a Safeway shopping center.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm view across a shopping center parking lot with a white van, yellow car, storefront signage, trees, and hillside homes. — Wide view across the shopping center lot.

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing cars in a shopping center parking lot, Safeway signage, a white van, trees, and hillside housing beyond. — Cars and storefronts framed from a window-like view.

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