Colorado USA-1959: Fish Swimming in Shallow Water

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Fish Swimming in Shallow Water — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado USA in 1959 captures a fish swimming through shallow, greenish water over a rocky, algae-covered riverbed. The grainy, color-bleached film shows natural movement as the fish glides past stones and patches of white sediment. This authentic archival clip, shot on 8mm film, offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century outdoor recreation and wildlife observation, with the characteristic soft focus and film grain of its era.

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: 121131321

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Helps source a 1950s Colorado home-movie nature cutaway for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences about outdoor recreation and freshwater wildlife observation.
Period detail: The visible clues are mainly the color 8mm texture, soft exposure, and handheld framing, which support the supplied 1959 home-movie context more than any identifiable landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged observer's perspective, holding on a fish moving through shallow water as someone records a quiet outdoor moment.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a fish, greenish shallow water, algae-covered stones, pale rock or sediment, reflected sky patches, and dark film gate edges.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, softened focus, color fading, gate shadows, and slight handheld drift that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief nature insert, memory beat, transition, or atmospheric cutaway within a mid-century travel or outdoor recreation sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects casual mid-century home-movie attention to local landscape and wildlife, with no visible people, structures, or public event context in these frames.
Research note: No faces, logos, or private property are visible, but species identification, location specificity, copyright status, and reuse permissions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1959 Colorado 8mm fish in shallow water, vintage home movie pond wildlife, or mid-century outdoor nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel outdoor footage, then other Colorado 1959 material, then similar 1950s home-movie water, fishing, vacation, or wildlife scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Colorado 8mm frame showing a fish in shallow greenish water above algae-covered rocks and pale sediment. — A fish passes over algae-covered stones in shallow water.

1959 Colorado home-movie frame with a fish gliding through shallow water beside pale rock and reflected sky patches. — The fish glides through a shallow rocky patch of water.

1959 Colorado 8mm frame showing a fish crossing a darker section of shallow water with mottled algae and submerged stones. — The fish continues across a darker algae-covered riverbed or pond bottom.

1959 Colorado home-movie frame with a fish in shallow green water, bordered by pale rock and algae-covered bottom. — A final frame holds on the fish beside pale rock and green algae.

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