Colorado Springs Colorado USA-1974: Viewpoint From A Picture Perfect Lakefront

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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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Viewpoint From A Picture Perfect Lakefront — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, in 1974, showcasing a serene lakefront property. The clip features a long, low building with a covered dock extending over calm blue water, surrounded by trees with autumnal foliage. A large tree with green and yellow leaves frames the left side of the view. The camera pans slowly across the scene, capturing the tranquil atmosphere under a clear blue sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, color saturation, and slight motion blur, offering authentic archival material for nostalgic or historical projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120967736

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

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: 1970s Colorado lakefront home-movie footage suited to documentary inserts, regional memory sequences, or scenic establishing material for leisure and residential waterside settings.
Period detail: The frames show 1974-era 8mm color footage with a low lakeside building, covered dock, mature trees, and autumn foliage, with period clues coming mainly from the film stock and metadata rather than identifiable architecture.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds a quiet visitor-shot view across the water and pans gently, valuing the lakefront atmosphere over staged action or formal documentation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue lake water, a long low building, a covered dock or boathouse structure, shoreline trees, a large foreground tree, clear sky, and the rounded edges of the film frame.
Film character: The clip carries a home-movie 8mm texture with saturated blues and greens, soft focus, mild handheld drift, gate edges, dust specks, and light motion blur.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, memory beat, regional transition, or calm exterior insert between more specific Colorado Springs material.
Historical context: The scene reflects a quiet lakeside built environment in Colorado Springs during the 1970s, showing leisure-oriented waterfront architecture without visible people or activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property-release needs should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1974 Colorado Springs lakefront 8mm footage, 1970s Colorado waterside building home movie, and vintage lake dock Super 8 cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1974 Colorado Springs exteriors, and then with broader 1970s lake, dock, and quiet travel-view material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1974 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing a long low lakeside building and covered dock across blue water, with shoreline trees and clear sky. — Lakefront building viewed across the water.

1974 Colorado Springs 8mm frame with a covered dock, low lakeside building, leafy trees, and blue water seen from across the lake. — Covered dock along the far shoreline.

1974 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing a large leafy tree at the lakeshore, blue water, and a covered dock partly visible across the lake. — Foreground tree beside the lake.

1974 Colorado Springs 8mm frame with a foreground tree trunk and green-yellow leaves beside blue lake water, with a small portion of dock across the shore. — Tree-framed lake view.

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