Colorado Springs Colorado USA-1974: A Woman Sitting in Silhouette by a Lake Gazing at a Grand Hotel

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

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A Woman Sitting in Silhouette by a Lake Gazing at a... — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1974, showing a woman in silhouette sitting on a boat or dock, gazing across a calm lake toward a large, ornate hotel with a prominent tower. The scene is bathed in warm, nostalgic light with a distinct blue-purple color cast typical of aged film. Trees with autumn foliage line the shore, and the water reflects the building and sky. The shot is framed by dark borders, suggesting viewing through a projector or slide viewer, capturing a quiet, contemplative moment of relaxation and solitude.

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: 120967568

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This clip fits requests for 1970s Colorado Springs travel, leisure, resort-lake atmosphere, or reflective home-movie inserts for documentary and period editorial use.
Period detail: The 1974 date is supplied in the metadata, while the visible period detail comes through the 8mm color rendering, autumn lakeside clothing silhouette, and visitor view toward a large towered hotel.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged visitor moment, with a woman sitting quietly in silhouette and looking across the water rather than performing for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a seated woman in dark silhouette, calm lake water, a large ornate hotel with a tower, shoreline trees with autumn foliage, reflected building forms, blue sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has a soft 8mm home-movie texture with visible grain, mild blur, blue-purple color shift, uneven exposure, and contact-frame edge darkness.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet memory beat, contemplative cutaway, travel insert, or transition into a 1970s Colorado Springs resort or vacation sequence.
Historical context: The scene suggests leisure travel or resort visitation in Colorado Springs, showing a lakeside viewpoint toward a grand hotel without documenting a specific event or named activity.
Research note: A person is visible only in silhouette, but likeness review may still be needed, and the prominent hotel or resort setting should be identified separately for property, trademark, and editorial-use considerations.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1974 Colorado Springs 8mm home movie, woman silhouette by lake, vintage resort hotel across water, Broadmoor lake view, and 1970s Colorado vacation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1974 Colorado Springs or hotel-lake views, and then with broader 1970s vacation, solitude, resort, or autumn travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1974 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing a woman in dark silhouette seated near calm lake water, facing a large ornate hotel with a tower and autumn trees along the shore. — Silhouetted woman looks across the lake toward a towered hotel.

1974 Colorado Springs frame with a seated woman in silhouette in the foreground, calm water in the middle ground, and a large towered hotel backed by trees across the lake. — A seated figure is framed against lake water and a hotel beyond.

1974 Colorado Springs home-movie still showing the silhouetted woman lower in frame, with the lake, autumn shoreline, and large hotel with tower occupying the background. — The foreground silhouette sits below a lakeside hotel view.

The woman remains in silhouette beside the lake at the end of the shot.

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