Colorado Springs Colorado USA-1974: Cars Fill A Parking Lot In Front Of A

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

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Cars Fill A Parking Lot In Front Of A — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from 1974 captures a classic American hotel entrance in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The ornate building features arched entryways, a decorative balcony, and multiple American flags. A row of 1970s automobiles, including station wagons and sedans in cream, red, and white, fills the parking lot. The scene is bathed in bright daylight, showcasing the era's distinct automotive design and architectural style. The film exhibits natural grain and color saturation typical of home movie footage from the period, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-1970s Americana.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120967416

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 Colorado Springs clip can support documentary or educational requests for mid-1970s American travel, hotel arrivals, parking-lot exteriors, and period automobile establishing material.
Period detail: Visible period clues include large 1970s sedans and station wagons, arched hotel awnings, American flags over the entrance, and sunlit resort-style architecture in Colorado Springs.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective from across a parking area, briefly observing the hotel frontage and parked cars rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: The frames show a hotel entrance with arched awnings, a decorative balcony, American flags, rows of parked sedans and wagons, windows, rooflines, lamp posts, and bright pavement.
Film character: The 8mm image carries visible grain, saturated color, slight softness, strong daylight contrast, and minor handheld reframing consistent with a short home-movie scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short exterior insert, travel transition, period parking-lot cutaway, or memory beat for 1970s Colorado Springs lodging and road-trip context.
Historical context: The clip visually situates automobile-centered travel culture around a formal hotel entrance, with national flags and parked family cars framing the public-facing arrival area.
Research note: People are faintly visible at the edge of the scene, and likeness, location, property, and copyright questions should be reviewed separately before publication or commercial use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1974 Colorado Springs hotel exterior 8mm, 1970s American parking lot cars, vintage resort entrance home movie, and Broadmoor area travel footage if independently verified.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1974 Colorado Springs exteriors, and then with broader 1970s hotel, road-trip, parking-lot, or American automobile scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1974 8mm frame from Colorado Springs showing a hotel frontage with arched awnings, American flags, a balcony, and parked sedans and station wagons. — Cars parked outside a flagged hotel entrance.

1974 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing several parked 1970s cars in front of a hotel entrance with arched awnings and American flags. — Parked cars line the hotel frontage.

1974 8mm frame in Colorado Springs showing a row of parked cars beneath a hotel facade, windows, roofline, and shaded entrance area. — A row of period cars below the hotel facade.

1974 Colorado Springs frame showing a hotel exterior and parking lot with multiple parked sedans, a station wagon, windows, rooflines, and strong afternoon light. — Hotel parking lot with 1970s cars.

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