Colorado-1958: A Chipmunk Searches For Food On Gravel

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

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A Chipmunk Searches For Food On Gravel — Clip Details

A small rodent, likely a chipmunk, scurries across a gravelly dirt surface in this 8mm home movie from Colorado, 1958. The animal moves quickly, its striped back and bushy tail visible as it searches the ground. Shot on vintage 8mm film, the footage displays natural grain, warm color tones, and a slightly soft focus, capturing a candid moment of wildlife in a natural setting. The frame is bordered by film sprocket holes, enhancing its authentic archival feel.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123585589

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Colorado wildlife requests needing a brief home-movie cutaway of a small chipmunk-like rodent for documentary, museum, education, or nature sequence context.
Period detail: The footage may show a late-1950s amateur 8mm travel or nature moment, with the visible era clue coming mainly from the warm color film stock, soft focus, and home-movie framing.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged observer's view of a small animal moving across gravel, suggesting a casual moment noticed during family or travel filming rather than a controlled wildlife setup.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a striped small rodent, bushy tail, reddish-brown gravel, scattered stones, soft shadows, dark frame edges, and warm 8mm color grain.
Film character: The scan has a soft 8mm texture, visible grain, warm exposure, slight blur from motion, and dark frame borders that support its physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife insert, nature transition, travel-memory cutaway, or quiet observational beat within a Colorado or 1950s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The clip gives visual context for mid-century amateur filming of ordinary outdoor wildlife encounters, without showing people, buildings, landmarks, or identifiable public events.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and confirm species, location, and project-specific clearance needs.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Colorado 8mm wildlife footage, chipmunk on gravel, vintage home movie animal cutaway, small rodent searching ground, and 1950s nature insert.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Colorado 1958 outdoor footage, then broader 1950s 8mm wildlife, travel, or nature cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

A chipmunk-like rodent pauses on gravel in Colorado 1958 home-movie footage, framed by dark 8mm scan borders. — A small striped rodent pauses on gravel in a soft 8mm frame.

The chipmunk-like animal is viewed from above on reddish gravel, with soft focus and warm 8mm color from the Colorado 1958 clip. — The animal moves across a gravelly dirt surface viewed from above.

A small striped rodent with its tail raised moves over reddish gravel in this 1958 Colorado 8mm home-movie frame. — A striped rodent scurries with its tail raised over the gravel.

The chipmunk-like rodent crosses the gravel near the edge of the 8mm frame, its striped back and tail visible in the 1958 Colorado footage. — The small animal crosses toward the edge of the gravel frame.

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