Colorado Springs Colorado USA-1974: Waterside White Hotel with Red Roof and Patio

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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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Waterside White Hotel with Red Roof and Patio — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from 1974 captures a sunny day at a waterside hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The clip shows a large white hotel building with a red-tiled roof, surrounded by tall evergreen trees and a calm lake. A patio area with white furniture lines the water's edge, and the camera pans slowly across the scene, capturing the peaceful atmosphere. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, with natural sunlight reflecting off the water and highlighting the building's mid-century architecture. The overall mood is nostalgic and serene, evoking a classic American vacation from the 1970s.

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: 120967688

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 clip supports documentary or educational requests for 1970s Colorado Springs travel lodging, resort architecture, and sunny waterside vacation atmosphere.
Period detail: The red-tiled roofs, white multi-story hotel facade, patio furniture, and home-movie color palette may show mid-1970s resort or hotel styling in Colorado Springs.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective, slowly surveying the lakeside hotel frontage and shaded grounds rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a calm body of water, white waterside railings and patio seating, tall evergreen trees, leafy branches, red-tiled roofs, and a large white hotel building.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, handheld framing, and bright daylight exposure that give the scene authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel-memory cutaway, or transition into a 1970s Colorado vacation or hotel sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects leisure travel imagery through exterior views of a waterside hotel setting, with architecture and landscaping presented from a visitor's vantage point.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, and the hotel property may require identification review; copyright, likeness, and property considerations should be evaluated separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1974 Colorado Springs 8mm hotel footage, 1970s waterside resort exterior, Super 8 vacation lodging, and sunny lakefront hotel patio.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1974 Colorado Springs material, and then with broader 1970s hotel, tourism, waterside, or vacation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1974 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing a white waterside hotel facade partly screened by tall evergreen trees, with patio seating along the water. — White hotel exterior across the water.

1974 Colorado Springs 8mm frame with the white hotel, red rooflines, evergreen trees, and waterside patio furniture under bright sun. — Sunny hotel patio beside the water.

1974 Colorado Springs 8mm frame looking across water toward lower hotel structures, leafy tree branches, white railings, and tall evergreens. — Lower hotel buildings through lakeside trees.

1974 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing the lakeside edge of the hotel property, with white railings, a low red-roofed building, trees, and calm water. — Waterside hotel edge with white railings.

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