Colorado Springs USA-1958: Roadside Motel and Mountain Valley Views

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

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Roadside Motel and Mountain Valley Views — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a stone-faced roadside motel in Colorado Springs, featuring prominent Budweiser and King's Crown signs. The clip transitions to sweeping views of the surrounding mountains and a forested valley, showcasing classic mid-century Americana. The footage exhibits authentic film grain, color shifts, and a nostalgic quality, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, historical projects, or retro-themed content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123583968

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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

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: 1950s Colorado Springs home-movie footage for productions needing roadside Americana, motel signage, and mountain-view travel context.
Period detail: The stone motel facade, parked car edge, beer sign, and King's Crown sign appear to place the scene in mid-century roadside travel culture.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot feel, moving from a quick roadside motel view to scenery observed from a traveler's vantage point.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a stone-front motel, Budweiser and King's Crown signage, storefront windows, a parked car edge, wooded slopes, mountain ridges, valley houses, and open grass.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, handheld framing, visible grain, slight color shift, and contact-sheet gate edges that retain the physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel insert, location transition, roadside cutaway, or memory beat before broader Colorado mountain scenery.
Historical context: The footage visually connects mid-century motel travel with Colorado mountain tourism without documenting a specific event or named landmark.
Research note: Visible commercial signage should be reviewed for trademark context, while no people are visible and copyright clearance remains separate from brand or property review.
Research search match: Useful matches include 1958 Colorado Springs 8mm motel footage, vintage roadside sign home movie, and 1950s Colorado mountain valley travel view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel travel scenes, then other 1958 Colorado Springs material, then broader 1950s roadside motel and mountain vacation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing a stone-faced roadside motel with commercial signs and display windows. — Stone-front motel exterior with prominent roadside signs and window displays.

Colorado Springs motel exterior on 8mm film, with stone facing, commercial signage, windows, and a partial parked car. — Roadside motel facade with beer and King's Crown signage visible above the entrance area.

1958 Colorado Springs travel view of wooded mountain ridges, open grass, and scattered valley homes. — Mountain and valley view with forested slopes and small buildings below.

Colorado Springs area landscape on 8mm film, showing wooded ridges, rocky slopes, valley buildings, and grassy foreground. — Wide travel view across a green valley toward wooded and rocky mountain slopes.

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