Colorado USA-1959: Fish Swimming over Rocky Riverbed

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Fish Swimming over Rocky Riverbed — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado USA in 1959 captures a serene underwater view of fish swimming over a rocky riverbed. The grainy, color-bleached film shows dark silhouettes of fish gliding through clear, green-tinged water, with sunlight filtering through the surface and illuminating the textured river floor. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics—soft focus, film grain, and a warm, nostalgic color palette—offering a rare glimpse into mid-century natural observation. This authentic archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 121131315

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 1704 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: 1
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: colorado
Date: 1959 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, 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: Supports requests for late-1950s Colorado home-movie nature footage, especially documentary or educational inserts showing fish and clear river water.
Period detail: The 1959 date and Colorado location come from clip metadata; the frames themselves mainly show fish, water, riverbed texture, and 8mm color-home-movie handling.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged observation quality, as if the camera operator paused to record fish moving below the water surface during an outdoor visit.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark fish silhouettes, green-tinged water, reflected light, pale riverbank or rock edges, a textured bottom, and contact-sheet frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries a soft 8mm look with grain, slight blur, uneven exposure, color fading, and gate or contact-sheet borders that mark it as physical film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet nature cutaway, river-life insert, memory beat, or visual transition within a mid-century outdoor sequence.
Historical context: The scene offers a small-scale record of recreational nature observation in Colorado, without visible people, signage, buildings, or identifiable landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, source ownership, and location claims should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1959 Colorado 8mm fish footage, vintage riverbed home movie, underwater fish silhouettes, and mid-century nature footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel outdoor material, then Colorado 1959 clips, then other vintage water, river, fish, wildlife, or nature-observation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Colorado 8mm frame showing fish silhouettes in clear green water with reflected light and a visible riverbed below. — Fish pass through clear, green-tinged river water above a textured bottom.

1959 Colorado 8mm frame with fish shapes near a pale rock or river edge, seen through softly focused green water. — Fish are visible near a pale edge of rock or bank under the water surface.

1959 Colorado 8mm frame showing a dark fish form over green water, with pale riverbed or bank texture along one side. — A fish shape crosses the frame beside a pale underwater edge.

1959 Colorado 8mm frame with fish silhouettes, green river water, a pale rock or bank edge, and visible film softness. — Fish remain visible in the green water near a bright pale edge.

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