Colorado-1958: Horse-Drawn Cart on Dirt Road Through Forest

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

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Horse-Drawn Cart on Dirt Road Through Forest — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this Colorado home movie captures a horse-drawn cart carrying passengers along a sun-drenched dirt road. The red and white cart moves away from the camera through a rural landscape of green trees and rolling hills under a bright blue sky with scattered white clouds. The footage shows natural film grain and slight camera shake, characteristic of vintage Super 8 home movies. This authentic slice of mid-century Americana offers nostalgic, archival footage ideal for documentaries, historical content, or retro-themed projects.

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: 123585610

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 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 rural Colorado or mid-century travel sequences needing brief home-movie footage of horse-drawn road transportation.
Period detail: The 1958 8mm footage may show a recreational horse-drawn cart or wagon on an unpaved road, with clothing and vehicle details too distant for close identification.
Home-movie behavior: The camera follows from behind at road level, giving the scene an unstaged family-travel viewpoint rather than a composed commercial shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red-and-white horse-drawn cart, seated passengers, a pale dirt road, roadside grass, evergreen trees, rolling hills, blue sky, and white clouds.
Film character: The clip carries a soft 8mm home-movie texture with visible grain, slight handheld shake, saturated sky color, and mild exposure variation across the frames.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural travel insert, memory beat, transition between outdoor scenes, or cutaway for mid-century recreation and transportation.
Historical context: The footage documents a small rural road scene in Colorado, suggesting leisure travel or local transport without supporting a specific event or landmark claim.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed even though no logos, audible music, private interiors, or identifiable brands are apparent.
Research search match: Searches for 1958 Colorado 8mm horse-drawn cart, rural dirt road home movie, vintage wagon passengers, or mid-century mountain road footage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Colorado rural travel material, then broader horse-drawn transportation or road-trip footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing a red-and-white horse-drawn cart with passengers traveling away along a pale rural road. — A horse-drawn cart carries passengers down a sunlit dirt road bordered by trees.

The horse-drawn cart appears farther down the Colorado dirt road, framed by forested hills and scattered clouds. — The cart recedes along the road with green trees and hills on both sides.

Soft 8mm frame of a horse-drawn cart traveling away on a rural Colorado road, with passengers visible only at a distance. — The cart moves deeper into the rural landscape as the camera follows from behind.

Final 1958 Colorado frame shows the red-and-white cart still moving away along the unpaved road through a green mountain landscape. — A rear view holds on the horse-drawn cart as it continues along the dirt road.

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