Colorado-1973: Wooden Welcome to Colorful Colorado Sign on Log Posts by a Highway

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 · Colorado, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

road trip
state border arrival
family vacation
roadside signage
Rocky Mountain travel
1970s tourism

Shot type: medium
Camera: static · handheld
Setting: outdoor · Highway roadside below a scrub-covered mountain slope
Time and weather: day · summer · bright overcast
Lighting: soft daylight with an overexposed white sky
People: 0 · No people are visible.
Objects: wooden welcome sign · log posts · metal guardrail · concrete structure with railings · small roadside marker posts · rocks at post bases
Readable signs: WELCOME TO COLORFUL COLORADO
Colors: dark brown · white · olive green · purple · rust
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: High

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The wooden Colorful Colorado welcome board on log posts is framed against a hillside.
The camera holds steady, keeping the white lettering readable.
The shot ends with a slight drift to the right, showing the guardrail and railings behind.

Wooden Welcome to Colorful Colorado Sign on Log Posts by... — Clip Details

Colorado, United States, circa 1973 home movie footage of the wooden 'Welcome to Colorful Colorado' state marker beside a highway. Hand-painted white lettering on a dark plank board hangs from a log frame, with a scrubby hillside, a concrete structure with pale railings and a metal guardrail behind it. The camera holds on the board in a single handheld shot of about six seconds, with only slight drift. The Super 8 colour leans purple, and the sky is overexposed.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Wide shot
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800002473

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People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1973 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Colorado, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This clip serves requests for an early-1970s Colorado arrival or road-trip establishing shot in documentaries, travel histories and nostalgic commercial work.
Period detail: The rustic log-frame welcome board with hand-painted lettering and the faded Super 8 colour may show state roadside signage as it looked around 1973.
Home-movie behavior: A visitor stopped to film the state welcome board as the first shot of the holiday, the kind of arrival marker a family records before the trip begins.
What appears in frame: The frame shows the wooden Colorful Colorado board, two log posts with a crossbeam, a scrub-covered hillside, a concrete structure with pale railings, a metal guardrail and small marker posts at the left edge.
Film character: Super 8 reversal colour shifted toward purple, a blown-out sky, fine grain, faint dust and a gentle handheld drift give the shot a clear amateur-film texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as an establishing shot or title card that tells the viewer the story has reached Colorado, before cutting to mountain or landmark footage.
Historical context: Colorado's 'Colorful Colorado' welcome boards greeted motorists on the state's highways, and this one opens a family trip to the Pikes Peak region filmed in the same period.
Research note: No people appear, but the state-owned sign design and any later rights in the Colorful Colorado wording should be considered separately from the film copyright, and clearance is not guaranteed.
Research search match: Researchers may search for Welcome to Colorful Colorado sign Super 8, 1970s Colorado road trip home movie, or vintage state line welcome sign footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair it first with this reel's Garden of the Gods plaque, Pikes Peak summit signs and Santa's Workshop clips, then with other early-1970s Colorado footage, then with other state welcome signs.

Still Frames From This Clip

Welcome to Colorful Colorado roadside sign on log posts below a hillside, Colorado, circa 1973 Super 8 home movie — The wooden 'Welcome to Colorful Colorado' board beside a highway, circa 1973.
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Hand-painted Colorado state welcome board with a highway guardrail and pale concrete railings behind it, circa 1973 — Hand-painted white lettering on dark planks, with a guardrail and concrete railings in the background.
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Log-frame Colorful Colorado welcome sign under an overexposed sky on a Rocky Mountain roadside, circa 1973 film — The log frame and hanging board hold steady against the slope in a single handheld shot.
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Closing frame of the Colorful Colorado welcome sign with purple-tinted Super 8 colour, Colorado, circa 1973 — The closing frame drifts slightly right and shows the purple cast of the faded Super 8 colour.
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