Colorado Springs USA-1958: Nighttime Car Gathering and Mountain Vista

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

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Nighttime Car Gathering and Mountain Vista — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a nighttime gathering in Colorado Springs, USA. The grainy, low-light footage shows a dirt field with classic American cars parked under a dark sky, their headlights illuminating the scene. A few figures move across the field, suggesting a casual outdoor event. The clip transitions to a daytime mountain vista, showcasing a panoramic view of forested slopes and distant peaks under a blue sky with scattered clouds. The footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American life and travel, with authentic film grain and color saturation characteristic of 8mm home movies.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorNight
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123584235

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 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: Useful for 1950s Colorado travel, roadside gathering, and mountain landscape requests needing authentic 8mm home-movie atmosphere.
Period detail: The car silhouettes, visitor-shot mountain overlook, and saturated 8mm color may show mid-century American leisure travel in the Colorado Springs area.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged family-travel perspective, moving from a casual outdoor car gathering to a handheld scenic look across forested slopes.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include parked cars, small human figures, a dirt clearing, dark sky, steep wooded slopes, distant valley, blue sky, and scattered clouds.
Film character: The scan carries dense 8mm grain, low-light exposure, heavy contrast, soft focus, gate edges, and handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, memory beat, or transition between nighttime travel activity and daytime mountain scenery.
Historical context: The clip visually places automobile travel and scenic mountain viewing within a mid-century home-movie record, without identifying a specific event or landmark.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no clear logos are visible, and copyright clearance is separate from likeness or property review.
Research search match: Research matches include 1950s Colorado Springs 8mm home movie, vintage car gathering at night, Colorado mountain vista, and mid-century travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Colorado Springs 1958 material, then with broader 1950s road trip and mountain travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing parked cars and distant people in a dark outdoor dirt clearing. — Nighttime dirt clearing with classic cars parked along the edge and small figures moving in the distance.

Colorado Springs area travel view with steep forested slopes, distant valley, and hazy mountains in 8mm color. — Daytime mountain vista looking past dark forested slopes toward a hazy valley and distant peaks.

Handheld 1958 Colorado mountain view with dark trees, sloping terrain, distant valley, and visible film scratch. — Forested slopes descend toward a bright distant valley, with a visible scratch across the home-movie frame.

8mm Colorado Springs area vista showing a dark mountain foreground, tree line, distant valley, and pale clouds. — Dark mountain foreground and tree line frame a distant valley beneath bright clouds and blue sky.

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