Pikes Peak Colorado-1973: Two Men and a Bundled Blond Boy Posing Behind the Summit Altitude Sign

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationPikes Peak, Colorado, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 · Pikes Peak, Colorado, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

family vacation
mountain summit
tourism
souvenir photography
American road trip
fatherhood and childhood
1970s leisure travel

Shot type: medium
Camera: static · handheld
Setting: outdoor · Mountain summit visitor area with a painted altitude sign in front of a speckled stone-panel wall
Time and weather: day · summer · overcast and cool
Lighting: flat diffuse daylight
People: 5 · A man in a white shirt holding a blond boy wrapped in a pale coat, a man in sunglasses and a dark jacket with a camera, and other adult visitors passing behind and in front
Landmarks: Pikes Peak summit
Objects: painted wooden summit sign · still camera · camera strap · pale coat · long pole · stone panel wall
Readable signs: SUMMIT · PIKES PEAK · ALTITUDE 14,110 FT. · OFFICIAL PHOTO
Colors: ochre yellow · red · grey-violet · navy
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: High

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Two men pose behind the Summit Pikes Peak altitude sign, one holding a blond boy.
The boy turns his face into the man's shoulder as both men smile at the camera.
A visitor carrying a long pole walks in from the right.
More visitors pass behind the posing pair while a figure crosses the foreground.

Two Men and a Bundled Blond Boy Posing Behind the Summit... — Clip Details

Pikes Peak summit, Colorado, circa 1973 home movie footage. Two men pose behind a painted wooden sign reading 'Summit Pikes Peak Altitude 14,110 ft.' One wears a white shirt and holds a blond boy wrapped in a pale coat. The other wears sunglasses and a dark jacket and has a camera at his chest. Other visitors come in from the right and pass behind the group while the boy turns his face into the man's shoulder. It is a single handheld medium shot on Super 8, set against a speckled stone-panel wall.

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Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800002477

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Minors are visible. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip, and a sensitive-use review is recommended.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: Yes
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: Pikes Peak, 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 suits requests for 1970s American family vacation or Colorado tourism footage that need a readable landmark sign naming Pikes Peak.
Period detail: Long sideburns, a wide-collar white shirt, aviator-style sunglasses and the warm, cool-shadowed Super 8 colour fit the early 1970s, and the 14,110 ft altitude figure is shown.
Home-movie behavior: The visitors pose cheerfully for a relative's camera while the cold boy hides his face in the man's shoulder and strangers wander through the shot.
What appears in frame: The frame shows a painted summit altitude sign with an official-photo emblem, a man holding a blond boy in a pale coat, a smiling man in sunglasses with a camera, passing visitors, and a speckled stone wall.
Film character: Soft Super 8 grain, flat overcast exposure and a slight blue-violet cast give the shot an authentic mid-century home-movie texture, and the sign remains legible.
Edit role: Editors can use it as an establishing insert or arrival beat for a Pikes Peak sequence, or as a short family memory cutaway.
Historical context: The summit photo at the altitude sign was a common ritual for drivers who climbed the Pikes Peak Highway toll road, which the City of Colorado Springs has operated since 1948.
Research note: The film copyright and the likeness of the identifiable adults and the minor are separate matters, and the painted sign design may carry its own rights, so releases and permissions are advisable for commercial use.
Research search match: Researchers might search for Pikes Peak summit sign, 1970s Colorado family vacation Super 8, tourists at a mountain summit, or vintage altitude sign home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's family at the 'Summit Pikes Peak 14,110 ft' stone sign, the Welcome to Colorful Colorado sign and the Garden of the Gods plaque, then with other Pikes Peak or Colorado clips from the 1970s, then with mountain-summit family footage.

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Pikes Peak summit, Colorado, circa 1973: two men pose behind the 14,110 ft altitude sign, one holding a blond boy — Two men pose behind the 'Summit Pikes Peak Altitude 14,110 ft.' sign, circa 1973.
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Circa 1973 Super 8 frame at the Pikes Peak summit: a bundled boy hides his face as two men smile behind the altitude sign — The boy turns into the man's shoulder while both men smile for the camera at the summit.
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Pikes Peak summit, circa 1973: a passing visitor with a long pole enters beside a family posing at the 14,110 ft sign — Another visitor carrying a long pole walks into the frame from the right.
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Colorado, circa 1973 home movie: summit visitors move through the frame around a family posed at the Pikes Peak sign — Visitors pass around the posing group, and one blurred figure crosses the foreground.
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