Colorado USA-1959: Rocky Mountain Landscape With Trees And Grass On A Windy Day

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Rocky Mountain Landscape With Trees And Grass On A Windy Day — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado USA in 1959, capturing a rugged mountain landscape. The clip shows rocky slopes covered in sparse grass and scattered pine trees, with a small stream visible in one frame. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slight color fading, and natural camera shake, conveying a nostalgic, unscripted outdoor scene. The perspective suggests viewing through a window or frame, with dark borders on the sides. The atmosphere is calm and natural, with a sense of wind moving through the trees and grass under a bright sky.

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: 121132010

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: Useful for 1950s Colorado outdoor establishing material, especially documentary or educational edits needing nonurban Rocky Mountain landscape from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century amateur travel filming, with no visible vehicles, clothing, signage, or landmarks to date beyond the supplied 1959 Colorado metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged scenic pause, likely filmed by a traveler holding on rocky slopes, pines, grass, and a brief stream view rather than a planned shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rocky mountain slopes, sparse grasses, pine branches, bright sky, dark frame edges, scrubby hillside texture, and a small stream in the opening frame.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, uneven exposure, and handheld instability that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief nature insert, travel transition, regional cutaway, or memory beat between scenes about Colorado, mountain trips, or mid-century leisure.
Historical context: The view offers quiet visual context for outdoor recreation and landscape observation in Colorado without making claims about a named park, route, or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright and location identification should still be reviewed separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 Colorado 8mm mountain landscape, vintage Rocky Mountain home movie, windy pine and grass hillside, and mid-century scenic travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Colorado 1959 footage, then broader 1950s mountain landscape or home-movie travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Colorado home-movie frame showing a small stream, rocky bank, grass, and dark edge framing. — A brief stream view appears beside grass and rocks within heavy dark frame edges.

1959 Colorado frame of a rocky mountain slope with sparse grass, pale sky, and pine branches along the side. — Rocky slopes rise under a bright sky with pine branches framing the right edge.

1959 Colorado home-movie view of a rocky hillside with grass, pine foliage, and dark edge framing. — A handheld view holds on a rugged grassy slope with pine foliage at the side.

1959 Colorado frame showing a rocky grass-covered slope, pale sky, pine branches, and dark film edge. — The final frame keeps the rocky hillside centered with pine branches silhouetted at right.

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