Colorado Springs USA-1958: Car Driving on Dirt Road in Mountains

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

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Car Driving on Dirt Road in Mountains — Clip Details

Shot from inside a car in 1958, this vintage 8mm home movie captures a journey along a winding dirt road in Colorado Springs. A light-colored vintage automobile travels ahead on the unpaved path, flanked by rocky terrain and scattered pine trees under a dramatic sky with dark clouds and patches of blue. The footage shows the classic grain and color saturation of Super 8 film, with the dashboard and windshield frame visible in the foreground, conveying a sense of motion and adventure during a mid-century road trip.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123584255

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 editorial work needing a car-window view of mountain road travel in Colorado Springs or a mid-century road trip insert.
Period detail: The visible dashboard, hood line, unpaved mountain road, and distant light-colored car may show mid-century touring conditions consistent with the 1958 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a passenger filming through the windshield during a family or personal drive along a mountain road.
What appears in frame: Frames show a car hood and windshield edge, a dirt road, a light-colored car ahead, rocky slopes, scattered pine trees, blue sky, and heavy dark clouds.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries visible grain, saturated color, soft focus, gate edges, and exposure shifts that give the road view a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a road-trip insert, travel transition, memory beat, or cutaway for mid-century mountain driving.
Historical context: The view documents recreational automobile travel through rocky mountain scenery without showing identifiable people, storefronts, signs, or landmarks.
Research note: No faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location, vehicle design, and any property context should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Colorado Springs 8mm road trip footage, vintage mountain driving, home movie car windshield view, and dirt road travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then Colorado Springs or 1958 travel material, then broader vintage mountain road and car-trip scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado Springs home-movie view through a car windshield, showing a dirt road, rocky slope, and another car ahead under heavy clouds. — Passenger-view driving shot on an unpaved mountain road with storm clouds overhead.

Windshield perspective in Colorado Springs, 1958, with a light-colored car traveling ahead on a curving unpaved mountain road. — A light-colored car crests the dirt road as the filming car follows behind.

Home-movie frame from a 1958 Colorado Springs drive, with dashboard foreground, roadside pine, dirt road, and car ahead in mountain scenery. — The filming car follows the road past a pine tree toward a vehicle ahead.

Colorado Springs road-trip frame from 1958 showing a windshield-framed dirt road, distant car, rocky hillside, pine tree, and dramatic cloud cover. — A distant car continues along the mountain road beneath a dark cloud bank.

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