Colorado Springs Colorado USA-1974: Dark Mountain Silhouette At Dusk Through The Eyes Of A

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Year1974
Decade1970s
LocationColorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Dark Mountain Silhouette At Dusk Through The Eyes Of A — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1974, capturing a dramatic mountain silhouette at dusk. The dark, jagged peaks stand against a pale lavender sky with soft, glowing clouds, creating a stark contrast. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and a subtle handheld shake, evoking a nostalgic, personal memory. The scene is quiet and contemplative, with no visible movement or subjects, focusing on the natural landscape's serene beauty.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: HandheldNight
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120967189

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 1379 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1974
Reel-level location note: vail colorado
Date: 1974 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s Colorado home-movie landscape footage suited for documentary inserts, atmospheric transitions, or archival references to mountain scenery near Colorado Springs.
Period detail: The frames show no built environment or date-specific objects, so the 1974 period context comes from the supplied clip metadata rather than visible evidence.
Home-movie behavior: The shot reflects an unstaged home-movie pause on a distant mountain skyline at dusk, held from a quiet observer's position without visible people or activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark mountain ridge, pale lavender evening sky, small glowing clouds, deep foreground shadow, rounded 8mm frame edges, and contact-sheet borders.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight exposure unevenness, and minor handheld steadiness that give the landscape an authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, dusk transition, memory beat, or establishing insert for a Colorado travel or family-history sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually documents a private traveler or resident's attention to the mountain horizon, with the supplied metadata placing the scene in Colorado Springs in 1974.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, music, or private property are visible in the frames, but users should still assess underlying film copyright and location context for their project.
Research search match: Likely researcher matches include 1974 Colorado Springs 8mm mountain dusk, 1970s Colorado home movie landscape, and vintage Super 8 dark mountain silhouette.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other Colorado Springs 1974 material, then with broader 1970s mountain, dusk, or travel landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1974 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing a dark mountain silhouette under a pale lavender dusk sky with faint glowing clouds. — Mountain silhouette at dusk.

1974 Colorado Springs 8mm frame with a jagged dark ridge line set against a washed lavender evening sky and small illuminated clouds. — Jagged ridge under evening sky.

1974 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing dark mountain slopes, a central ridge dip, and small pale clouds in a faded dusk sky. — Dark slopes below faded sky.

1974 Colorado Springs 8mm frame holding on a dark mountain silhouette, pale evening sky, small clouds, and heavy shadow across the lower frame. — Dusk clouds above mountain silhouette.

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