Colorado USA-1959: Mountains Against Forest Then Close Up Of Chipmunk Eating Out

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Mountains Against Forest Then Close Up Of Chipmunk... — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado USA in 1959 captures a scenic mountain landscape with snow-dusted peaks and a dense green forest. The view, framed by a dark border, transitions to a close-up of a chipmunk eating food from a human hand on a rocky surface. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and a nostalgic, candid quality typical of mid-century amateur recordings. This authentic archival clip offers a glimpse into a peaceful moment of human-animal interaction in a natural setting.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-upExterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121131850

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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: 1950s Colorado 8mm home-movie material for productions needing mountain scenery and a quiet wildlife feeding moment.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-century amateur travel filming, with scenic landscape framing followed by a close hand-fed chipmunk close-up.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged visitor moment as someone offers food by hand to a small wild animal on rock.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include snow-dusted mountains, dark forest, blue sky, rocky ground, a human hand, food, and a chipmunk.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, warm color, visible grain, uneven exposure, and handheld framing typical of amateur physical film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a Colorado travel insert, wildlife cutaway, transition from landscape to close detail, or gentle memory beat.
Historical context: The scene reflects recreational nature filming and casual human-wildlife contact as recorded in a 1959 Colorado home movie.
Research note: A human hand is visible, so copyright, likeness, and any wildlife-use context should be reviewed separately before publication.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1959 Colorado 8mm mountains, vintage home movie chipmunk feeding, forest mountain travel footage, and hand feeding wildlife.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel scenes, then other 1959 Colorado travel footage, then broader mid-century mountain and wildlife home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Colorado 8mm frame showing mountains beyond dense forest and a foreground tree, bordered by dark film edges. — Mountain landscape above forest, seen through a dark film frame edge.

Close 1959 Colorado home-movie view of a hand offering food to a chipmunk on rock, with soft focus and film grain. — Hand-feeding a chipmunk on a sunlit rocky surface.

Soft 8mm close-up from Colorado showing a chipmunk beside an outstretched hand on textured rock. — Chipmunk beside an outstretched hand during a close feeding moment.

1959 Colorado home-movie frame of a chipmunk feeding beside a human hand, with warm color and soft handheld framing. — Chipmunk feeding beside a human hand on rock.

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