Colorado-1958: Dead Tree, Evergreens, and Distant Mountains

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

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Dead Tree, Evergreens, and Distant Mountains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a breathtaking panoramic view of the Colorado mountains. The scene unfolds through a natural frame, with a prominent dead tree and lush evergreens in the foreground. Rolling green valleys stretch into the distance beneath a vast blue sky with scattered white clouds. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color saturation, offering a nostalgic glimpse of the American West. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content about mid-century nature and travel.

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: 123585687

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 travel, nature, or American West productions needing a short scenic mountain cutaway from real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The visible period clue is mainly the 1958 8mm color home-movie texture rather than clothing, vehicles, signage, or built structures.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves a visitor-shot overlook perspective, using nearby trees as a natural frame for a distant mountain valley.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue mountain ridges, green valley floor, evergreen trees, a bare dead tree, cloudy sky, dark film borders, and slight handheld reframing.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm focus, saturated mid-century color, visible grain, gate edges, and minor exposure variation that read as physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a scenic insert, travel transition, outdoor memory beat, or geographic establishing cutaway for Colorado or mountain recreation themes.
Historical context: The scene shows mid-century leisure travel attention to mountain scenery, with no visible people, buildings, roads, or commercial identifiers in these frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright and location specificity should still be reviewed against the source reel and license terms.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1958 8mm Colorado mountains, vintage home movie mountain overlook, evergreen valley scenic view, and mid-century American West travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Colorado mountain views, then broader vintage scenic travel and American West nature footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing blue mountain ridges, a green valley, evergreens, and a bare foreground tree. — Evergreens and a bare tree frame a distant Colorado mountain valley.

Colorado mountain overlook on 8mm film, with evergreens and a bare tree in front of blue ridges and valley terrain. — A visitor-shot overlook looks past foreground trees toward blue mountain ridges.

1958 Colorado scenic frame with a green valley below blue mountains, softened by 8mm focus and film grain. — The camera settles on a green valley below layered mountain ridges.

Colorado 8mm home-movie frame showing a mountain panorama, foreground evergreens, a bare tree, and valley landscape. — Foreground evergreens and a bare tree edge a broad mountain panorama.

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