Colorado Springs Colorado USA-1974: Cars Driving Along A Road Next To A Park

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

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Cars Driving Along A Road Next To A Park — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1974, showing a sunlit residential street lined with lush green trees and a stone balustrade. A classic 1970s station wagon drives past a park-like setting, partially obscured by foliage. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic soft focus of Super 8 film, capturing a nostalgic slice of mid-70s American suburban life. A lamppost and ornamental stone railing frame the scene, with a statue visible on the balustrade in later frames. The camera remains steady, offering a candid, observational view of everyday life.

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: 120967523

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 clip supports requests for 1970s Colorado Springs street atmosphere, residential park-edge traffic, and short editorial cutaways of everyday American urban-suburban movement.
Period detail: The visible station wagon, soft color film palette, ornamental stone balustrade, lamppost, and mature landscaping fit the supplied 1974 Colorado Springs home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds a casual visitor or family-observer view of a car passing behind trees and a stone railing, preserving an unstaged street moment rather than a planned scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include leafy trees, a pale building partly hidden by foliage, a stone balustrade, a streetlamp, a passing station wagon, parked or moving cars, and a small decorative statue or sculpture.
Film character: The footage has 8mm home-movie texture with visible grain, mild color shift, soft focus, uneven exposure, and slight gate-edge darkness from the scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, transition, memory beat, or cutaway for mid-1970s Colorado Springs neighborhood and park-adjacent street life.
Historical context: The scene documents a quiet landscaped roadside environment where 1970s automobile travel, civic-style stonework, and residential greenery share the same frame.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright status and any property or location permissions should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1974 Colorado Springs street scene, 1970s station wagon passing park, 8mm Colorado home movie, stone balustrade road footage, and residential trees vintage traffic.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1974 Colorado Springs material, then broader 1970s American street, park, vehicle, and residential-road footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1974 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing a tree-lined street, ornamental stone balustrade, lamppost, and cars partly obscured by foliage. — Tree-lined street and stone railing with cars beyond.

1974 Colorado Springs street view with a station wagon partly visible behind a stone balustrade, mature trees, a lamppost, and a light-colored building. — Station wagon passing behind trees and stonework.

1974 Colorado Springs home-movie frame with a small decorative statue on or near a stone balustrade, dense greenery, a lamppost, and a car partly hidden below the railing. — Decorative statue and car partly hidden by the railing.

1974 Colorado Springs frame showing a sunlit stone balustrade with a small decorative statue, leafy trees, a lamppost, and a light-colored car partly obscured by the railing. — Sunlit railing, statue, and car beneath trees.

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