Colorado Springs USA-1958: Long Dirt Road That Leads Up To The Mountainous

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationColorado Springs, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Colorado

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Long Dirt Road That Leads Up To The Mountainous — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a scenic drive through Colorado Springs. The footage shows a long, winding dirt road flanked by pine trees, leading toward distant mountain peaks under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds. The view is framed by the dark interior of a vehicle, with the car's white fender visible in the foreground. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American road trip.

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: 123583905

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1958 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Colorado Springs, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s U.S. travel, road-trip, or mountain-region documentary sequences needing a brief home-movie view from a moving car.
Period detail: The vehicle-framed view, dirt road, saturated color, and 8mm texture support a late-1950s home-movie travel context in Colorado Springs.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged passenger viewpoint, watching the road and mountain landscape pass from inside a moving vehicle.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a dirt road, pine trees, distant mountain peaks, blue sky with scattered clouds, roadside earth, and a white car fender.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, saturated mid-century color, slight exposure variation, and handheld vehicle movement consistent with home-movie filming.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a travel insert, scenic transition, establishing cutaway, or memory beat within a mid-century American road sequence.
Historical context: The scene shows recreational or visitor-shot automobile travel through a mountain landscape without visible people, signs, or named landmarks in frame.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location, roadway, and any property-access issues should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Searches such as 1958 Colorado Springs 8mm road footage, vintage mountain drive, 1950s dirt road home movie, and car-view travel film match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel travel shots, then other 1958 Colorado Springs material, then broader 1950s mountain road and road-trip footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing a dirt road area, trees, and distant mountains from inside a vehicle. — A vehicle-framed view looks across a dirt road area toward pine trees and distant mountains.

1958 Colorado Springs road-view frame with a winding dirt road, pine trees, distant peak, and white car fender. — The dirt road curves ahead between trees, with part of the vehicle visible at lower right.

1958 Colorado Springs home-movie view down a dirt road bordered by pine trees and a low mountain peak. — A passenger view follows the road between trees toward a distant mountain shape.

Final 1958 Colorado Springs frame showing the dirt road receding between dark pines toward distant mountains. — The road continues between pine stands, with the vehicle fender anchoring the foreground.

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