Colorado Springs Colorado USA-1974: A Quaint Cabin Overlooking A Still Lake With

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

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A Quaint Cabin Overlooking A Still Lake With — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1974, showing a tranquil lakeside scene. The clip features a calm body of water reflecting a line of tall evergreen trees and a smaller deciduous tree with autumnal foliage. A grassy bank with a low stone retaining wall borders the lake, under a bright, clear sky. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, natural color saturation, and subtle grain, capturing a peaceful, nostalgic moment of nature. The dark frame borders suggest the footage was captured on a handheld camera, offering a personal, archival perspective of a quiet outdoor setting.

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: 120967990

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for documentary or educational requests needing 1970s Colorado Springs home-movie footage of a quiet lakeside landscape, evergreen trees, and vacation-era outdoor atmosphere.
Period detail: The frames show soft 8mm color footage with a grassy lake edge, mature evergreens, and a small light structure or cabin-like shape in the background, while the 1974 Colorado Springs setting comes from supplied clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational stillness of a home-movie camera lingering on scenery rather than staging action or identifiable people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm lake water, reflected trees, a grassy bank, a low stone or concrete retaining edge, tall evergreens, a smaller leafy tree, dark film-frame borders, and a small pale structure partly hidden by foliage.
Film character: The footage carries soft focus, mild grain, uneven exposure, rounded frame edges, and slight gate or handheld instability typical of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a peaceful cutaway, location-establishing insert, reflective transition, or memory beat within a travel, family archive, or nature sequence.
Historical context: As a short 1974 home-movie view, it documents leisure-oriented looking at a landscaped lakeside setting in Colorado Springs without showing social activity or identifiable individuals.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location, and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1970s Colorado Springs lake footage, 8mm home movie evergreen shoreline, vintage Colorado vacation scenery, and calm lake reflection cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1974 Colorado Springs material, and then with broader 1970s lake, cabin, vacation, or quiet nature footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1974 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing still lake water, a grassy bank, tall evergreens, and a small pale structure partly obscured by trees. — Lakeside trees reflected in still water.

1974 Colorado Springs home-movie frame with a still lake in the foreground, a low shoreline edge, dense evergreens, and a small light structure set back among the trees. — Quiet shoreline with evergreens and reflections.

1974 Colorado Springs 8mm frame looking across calm water toward a grassy bank, tall conifers, a smaller deciduous tree, and a partly hidden pale structure. — Home-movie view across a calm lake.

1974 Colorado Springs frame showing a quiet lake, reflected evergreens, a grassy shore, a low retaining edge, and a small pale background structure partly screened by foliage. — Still water below a tree-lined bank.

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