Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Overview Of A Busy Road

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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 capturing a sunlit suburban street scene in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The view, framed by a dark window edge, shows a Safeway grocery store and a large commercial building with a distinctive stone facade. Classic American cars from the era, including a white panel van and a yellow sedan, populate the parking lot. A small dark object, possibly a bird or kite, briefly appears in the sky. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and a warm, nostalgic 1970s aesthetic, offering authentic archival footage of mid-century American life.

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: 120961866

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: This clip helps satisfy requests for 1970s Colorado Springs suburban street, parking lot, and roadside commercial cutaways for documentary, educational, or period-setting edits.
Period detail: Visible period clues include 1970s automobiles, a white panel van, low roadside commercial buildings, and a grocery storefront with visible branding in a sunlit Colorado Springs setting.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the feel of a brief visitor or household observation from behind a dark window edge, preserving an unstaged view of everyday traffic and shopping-area activity.
What appears in frame: The frames show a busy parking lot, classic cars, a white van, a yellow sedan, a grocery storefront, a larger commercial building, trees, hillside houses, sky, and a dark foreground window edge.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft grain, slight color fading, mild exposure variation, and subtle handheld framing that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, period traffic cutaway, transition between Colorado Springs scenes, or memory beat for suburban American life.
Historical context: The clip visually situates everyday car-oriented commercial activity in a 1970s Colorado Springs suburban landscape without establishing a specific event or named landmark beyond the supplied location metadata.
Research note: Visible store branding and commercial property features should be reviewed for trademark or property-use context, while no identifiable people or children are visible in the supplied frames.
Research search match: Useful researcher searches include 1973 Colorado Springs street scene, 1970s suburban parking lot, vintage 8mm Colorado roadside commerce, and home movie grocery store traffic.
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 roads, cars, shopping centers, or travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing a sunlit commercial parking area with period cars, a white van, a grocery storefront, trees, distant hillside homes, and a dark foreground window edge. — Suburban shopping area and traffic in Colorado Springs.

1973 Colorado Springs frame looking past a dark window edge toward a busy roadside shopping area with classic cars, a white van, visible storefront branding, trees, and homes on a hillside. — Roadside commercial area with period cars and storefronts.

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie still with a slightly lower handheld view of a commercial parking lot, period vehicles, a white van, storefronts, trees, hillside houses, and a broad sky. — Handheld view across a busy 1970s parking lot.

1973 Colorado Springs frame showing a roadside commercial district from behind dark window framing, with 1970s cars, a white van, storefronts, trees, and houses visible on the hillside beyond. — Window-framed view of Colorado Springs roadside commerce.

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