Colorado USA-1959: Rolling View Of A Mountain Cliff With A Rock Formation And Trees

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Rolling View Of A Mountain Cliff With A Rock Formation... — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado USA in 1959, showing a slow, rolling view of a rugged mountain cliff. The camera pans across a dramatic rock formation with layered, weathered stone and scattered evergreen trees and shrubs clinging to the slope. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and natural color tones typical of 1950s amateur footage. The shot is framed by dark borders, suggesting it was captured through a window or viewfinder, creating a nostalgic, personal perspective of the Colorado wilderness.

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: 121132006

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: 1950s Colorado home-movie footage suited to documentary or educational requests for rugged Rocky Mountain landscape cutaways without visible people.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century amateur travel filming, with no visible buildings, vehicles, signage, clothing, or other era-specific objects beyond the 8mm color film record itself.
Home-movie behavior: The rolling handheld view suggests a visitor filming scenery from a moving vantage point, preserving a personal travel perspective rather than a staged landscape shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include steep weathered rock faces, layered stone ledges, evergreen trees, shrubs, scrub grasses, dark frame borders, and soft mountain color.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, visible grain, muted color, slight exposure variation, and handheld movement that read as original 1950s 8mm archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief scenic insert, travel transition, wilderness cutaway, or memory beat between Colorado road-trip or mountain sequences.
Historical context: The view records a mid-century amateur encounter with Colorado mountain scenery, emphasizing geology and evergreen vegetation rather than developed recreation sites.
Research note: No people, logos, or clear private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and land access context should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful matches include 1959 Colorado 8mm mountain cliff, vintage home movie rock formation, evergreen trees on rugged slope, and Rocky Mountain landscape footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Colorado 1959 travel footage, then broader 1950s mountain, wilderness, and roadside scenery clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Colorado 8mm frame showing a rugged cliff face with evergreens and shrubs viewed through dark film borders. — A rocky Colorado cliff slope appears behind evergreen trees in the opening frame.

1959 Colorado home-movie frame with layered rock, scattered evergreens, shrubs, and a dark vertical border. — The rolling view shifts across layered stone and vegetation on the mountain face.

1959 Colorado 8mm frame showing conifers and shrubs clustered below a weathered rock formation. — Evergreen trees fill the lower slope beneath a rough, reddish rock face.

1959 Colorado frame showing a rugged rocky slope with evergreens, shrubs, and muted 8mm color. — The closing frame holds on rocks, brush, and conifers along the rugged slope.

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