Colorado Springs Colorado USA-1974: Building by River

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

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Building by River — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1974, showing a riverside waterfront scene. The clip features a large, multi-story building with a modern facade, likely a hotel or apartment complex, situated along a calm river. A prominent tree with yellow-green foliage stands in the foreground, partially obscuring the view. The camera pans slowly, revealing more of the building's exterior, a glass-enclosed patio area, and additional trees. The footage exhibits classic 8mm film characteristics, including soft focus, natural color shifts, and visible grain, capturing a nostalgic summer day with bright sunlight and a serene atmosphere.

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: 120967680

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 1970s Colorado Springs 8mm clip can support documentary or educational requests for urban waterfront, hotel, resort, or apartment-adjacent leisure views in a summer home-movie context.
Period detail: The footage shows 1974-era exterior architecture, broad window grids, waterfront terrace seating, mature landscaping, and bright leisure-day clothing visible only at a distance.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of a visitor-shot view across water, lingering on a riverside building and terrace rather than staging people or action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm water, a multi-story modern building, rows of windows, glass-fronted ground-floor spaces, a yellow-green tree, evergreen plantings, terrace seating, and small distant people near the waterfront.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure shifts, color fading toward blue and magenta, and handheld framing that place the scene clearly in physical home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, location cutaway, travel-memory transition, or quiet waterfront beat within a 1970s Colorado Springs sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a sunlit built waterfront environment in Colorado Springs in 1974, with leisure or hospitality use suggested by the terrace and waterside seating but not identified in the frames.
Research note: People are visible at a distance and the building should be treated as identifiable property for context review, while copyright, likeness, and property permissions remain separate clearance questions.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1974 Colorado Springs 8mm waterfront building, 1970s riverside hotel exterior home movie, vintage Colorado waterside terrace, and Super 8 urban waterway cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Colorado Springs 1974 exterior or travel footage, and then with broader 1970s waterfront, hotel, resort, or urban leisure material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1974 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing a multi-story waterside building, rows of windows, a glassy ground floor, calm water, and a yellow-green tree in bright sun. — Waterfront building and sunlit tree across calm water.

1974 Colorado Springs exterior view across water toward a modern multi-story building, with a prominent tree, window rows, and a low waterfront terrace edge. — Modern facade viewed from across the water.

Wider 1974 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing a waterside building, a yellow-green tree, evergreen trees, a pale waterfront edge, and calm reflective water. — Wider riverside building view with trees and water.

1974 Colorado Springs frame showing a waterside terrace below a multi-story building, evergreen trees, outdoor seating, calm water, and small distant people near the waterfront. — Terrace and distant people along the waterfront.

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