Colorado Springs Colorado USA-1974: Fountain With Beautiful Features

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

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Fountain With Beautiful Features — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1974, showcasing a grand, multi-tiered stone fountain with sculpted figures and flowing water. The fountain is surrounded by manicured flower beds and evergreen trees under a bright blue sky. A tall flagpole stands nearby, and a quiet street with distant cars stretches into the background. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color saturation, and slight motion blur, capturing a nostalgic slice of mid-1970s Americana. Ideal for historical documentaries, retro-themed content, or nostalgic storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 120967480

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: 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 Colorado Springs 8mm clip supports archival requests for mid-1970s American travel, civic landscape, fountain, and home-movie establishing material.
Period detail: The visible clues are a formal stone fountain, flower beds, evergreen plantings, a tall flagpole, parked or passing cars in the distance, and saturated 8mm color typical of amateur 1970s travel footage.
Home-movie behavior: The shot has a visitor-shot perspective, holding on the fountain as a scenic attraction rather than staging any action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Across the four frames, the clip shows a multi-tiered sculptural fountain, flowing water, a circular basin, trees, flower beds, a flagpole, stone posts, and a quiet street receding behind it.
Film character: The footage carries visible 8mm grain, soft focus, mild gate weave, saturated blue sky, and slight handheld instability that give the scan a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, travel-memory cutaway, regional transition, or quiet civic-landscape beat within a 1970s sequence.
Historical context: The clip records a maintained public or visitor-facing outdoor space in Colorado Springs during the 1970s, emphasizing leisure travel and civic scenery without showing identifiable people.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but location/property identification and underlying footage rights should still be reviewed separately from copyright clearance.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1974 Colorado Springs 8mm fountain, 1970s Colorado travel home movie, sculptural fountain with flagpole, and vintage outdoor civic landscape footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1974 Colorado Springs material, and then with broader 1970s American travel, fountains, parks, and civic scenery.

Still Frames From This Clip

1974 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing a sculptural multi-tiered fountain with water, evergreen trees, flower beds, stone posts, and a flagpole under a blue sky. — Sculptural fountain in a landscaped Colorado Springs setting.

1974 Colorado Springs 8mm frame holding on the fountain, with flowing water, sculptural figures, landscaped plantings, a tall flagpole, and a distant street behind it. — Fountain with flagpole and distant street beyond.

1974 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing the fountain from a slightly shifted angle, with its basin, sculptural details, surrounding trees, flower beds, and stone posts visible. — Handheld view of the fountain and surrounding landscaping.

Final 1974 Colorado Springs frame of the fountain scene, with the multi-tiered water feature, flagpole, flower beds, trees, stone posts, and distant roadway held in soft 8mm color. — Final view of the fountain against trees and sky.

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