Colorado-1958: Recording Of Hills And Mountainous Land Or In The Forest Or Woods

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

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Recording Of Hills And Mountainous Land Or In The Forest... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping view of Colorado's mountainous landscape. The footage shows dense evergreen forests covering rolling hills under a partly cloudy sky, with a distant mountain peak visible in the final frames. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics—soft focus, natural grain, and a slightly faded color palette with prominent purples and greens. The perspective suggests a moving vehicle, offering a nostalgic glimpse of the American West during the late 1950s. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 123585501

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 1634 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: vacation,july,august,reel-1
Reel-level year note: 1958
Reel-level location note: colorado
Date: 1958 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Colorado, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Colorado 8mm home-movie scenery for productions needing a brief mountain landscape, forested hills, or American West travel-view insert.
Period detail: The frames may show a mid-century home-movie travel view, with no visible vehicles, people, signs, buildings, or landmarks to date beyond the 1958 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged traveler perspective, likely shot quickly from a moving vantage point toward wooded hills and distant mountains.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark film borders, forested slopes, rolling hills, clouded sky, a distant mountain peak, and soft green-purple color shifts.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, slight frame instability, and faded color that reads as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short scenic insert, transition, route cutaway, or memory beat within a Colorado travel or family-history sequence.
Historical context: The footage reflects leisure or travel filming of Colorado mountain scenery, without visible people or activity that would support broader social claims.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, location verification, and landscape identification should still be reviewed for use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1958 Colorado 8mm mountain scenery, vintage home movie forested hills, and mid-century American West travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Colorado or 1958 mountain travel clips, then broader forest, hills, and scenic landscape home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado home-movie frame showing a wooded hillside beneath a bright sky, with soft focus and dark film gate edges. — Forested hillside and pale sky seen through the 8mm frame.

1958 Colorado scenic frame with evergreen-covered hills rising toward a bright sky, softened by grain and faded color. — Wooded mountain slope continues across the frame under bright sky.

1958 Colorado home-movie view of a shadowed forested hill, with visible grain, soft detail, and dark film borders. — Shadowed hillside and bright sky captured in soft 8mm color.

1958 Colorado frame showing a distant mountain peak, rolling forested hills, and clouds above the landscape. — Distant peak appears beyond wooded hills beneath a cloudy sky.

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