Colorado Springs Colorado USA-1974: Luxury Hotel Grounds with Fountain and Gardens

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

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Luxury Hotel Grounds with Fountain and Gardens — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, in 1974, showcasing the magnificent and beautifully landscaped grounds of a grand luxury hotel. The clip features a sweeping view of manicured lawns, vibrant flower beds with white and red blooms, and a central fountain. Classic American cars from the 1970s are parked along the driveway, and guests in period attire stroll near the elegant building with its distinctive archways and ornate facade. The footage captures a sunny daytime scene with lush green trees and a mountain backdrop, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century affluence and resort life.

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: 120967322

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This 1974 8mm clip suits archival requests for Colorado Springs resort grounds, 1970s leisure travel, landscaped hotel exteriors, and establishing cutaways for documentary or educational productions.
Period detail: Visible era clues include 1970s automobiles, ornamental lampposts, manicured lawns, bright flower beds, and a grand hotel facade with archways, all seen in color home-movie footage.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective, panning across gardens, parked cars, walkways, and the hotel entrance rather than staging formal activity.
What appears in frame: The frames show a landscaped lawn, red and white flower beds, mature trees, stone retaining walls, lampposts, parked cars, paved paths, and a large hotel building.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, handheld framing, and contact-sheet edge artifacts that preserve the texture of original home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an exterior resort insert, a travel-memory transition, a 1970s affluence cutaway, or a quiet establishing beat before hotel or tourism material.
Historical context: The scene visually reflects a sunny leisure setting in Colorado Springs where formal landscaping, automobile arrival, and hotel architecture frame the experience of upscale travel.
Research note: People appear small in the distance and the hotel exterior may require property or location review, while copyright, likeness, and property considerations should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Likely researcher searches include 1974 Colorado Springs hotel grounds, 1970s 8mm resort gardens, vintage home movie landscaped hotel, and Colorado travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then with Colorado Springs footage from 1974, and then with other 1970s resort, hotel exterior, garden, or leisure-travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1974 Colorado Springs home-movie view of landscaped hotel grounds with red and white flowers, ornamental lampposts, trees, and parked cars near a driveway. — Hotel garden beds and parked cars beside the grounds.

1974 Colorado Springs resort grounds with a curving walkway, manicured lawn, flower beds, lampposts, trees, and hotel buildings in the background. — Curving garden path across the hotel grounds.

1974 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing the hotel lawn, red and white flower beds, shaded path, stone wall, trees, and a large arched facade. — Garden foreground with hotel archways beyond.

1974 Colorado Springs hotel grounds with a formal lawn, flower beds, arched entrance facade, parked cars, lampposts, and small distant visitors near the building. — Hotel entrance and formal gardens in bright daylight.

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