Colorado Springs USA-1958: Red Tanker Truck on Dusty Mountain Road

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

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Red Tanker Truck on Dusty Mountain Road — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a rugged mountain landscape in Colorado Springs. A red vintage tanker truck drives along a dusty, unpaved road, kicking up dust as it navigates the rocky terrain. The footage shows the truck approaching, passing the camera, and moving away into the distance under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film adds to its authentic mid-century feel, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-20th century transportation and rural infrastructure.

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: 123584485

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 archival requests needing rural Colorado road travel, mountain transport, or mid-century utility vehicle cutaways.
Period detail: The rounded red tanker-style truck and color 8mm look may show late-1950s road infrastructure in a rocky mountain setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds from the roadside as the truck passes, giving the clip an unstaged traveler or visitor perspective rather than a planned industrial shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red tanker truck, dusty unpaved road, rocky foreground, dark mountain slope, bright sky, scattered clouds, and distant light vehicles or structures.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm color, heavy grain, gate shadows, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that give it clear home-movie archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, road-travel transition, rural transport cutaway, or memory beat within a 1950s Colorado sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually documents a utilitarian vehicle moving through an unpaved mountain landscape, suggesting everyday transport outside an urban street setting.
Research note: No people or readable brands are visible, but vehicle identification, location claims, copyright, and any property concerns should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Searches for 1958 Colorado Springs 8mm road footage, vintage tanker truck on dirt road, or mid-century mountain transport footage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with other 1958 Colorado Springs material, then with rural roads, trucks, dust, and mountain travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing a rocky dirt road, mountain slope, bright sky, and a red truck approaching from the right edge. — A red truck approaches along a dusty mountain road below a dark hillside.

1958 Colorado Springs 8mm frame with a red tanker-style truck passing close to the camera on a dusty unpaved mountain road. — The red truck passes near the camera with the mountain slope behind it.

1958 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing the side of a red truck as it passes on a rough road beneath a dark mountain slope. — The truck moves across the foreground, partly cropped by the home-movie frame.

1958 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing dust hanging over a winding dirt road in a rocky mountain landscape after the truck passes. — Dust drifts along the road as the vehicle continues away through the mountain terrain.

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