Colorado-1958: Squirrel in Rocky Terrain and Mountain Vista

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

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Squirrel in Rocky Terrain and Mountain Vista — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a small squirrel moving through rocky terrain and low green bushes in a natural, sun-drenched setting. The footage, likely filmed in Colorado, shows the animal navigating uneven ground with scattered stones and sparse vegetation. As the camera pans upward, the scene opens to a wide mountain vista with dense evergreen trees in the foreground and a hazy valley stretching into the distance under a pale blue sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and soft focus, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic slice of mid-century nature footage is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 123585712

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: Useful for 1950s home-movie nature requests needing brief wildlife, rocky terrain, or mountain-view cutaways from Colorado-associated amateur footage.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century amateur travel footage, with no visible buildings, vehicles, clothing, signage, or other era-specific details beyond the stated 1958 8mm source.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor perspective, following a small animal at close range before shifting toward the surrounding mountain landscape.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rocky ground, dry leaves, low green brush, a small squirrel, evergreen trees, distant mountains, a hazy valley, and pale sky.
Film character: The footage has a soft handheld 8mm texture with visible grain, muted color shifts, uneven focus, and slight exposure variation across the short shot.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife insert, nature transition, travel-memory beat, or visual bridge from close ground detail to a wider mountain vista.
Historical context: The clip documents a casual outdoor encounter and scenic viewpoint in a mid-century home-movie context without visible people or developed infrastructure.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any wildlife-use context should still be reviewed by the buyer.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1958 8mm Colorado nature footage, squirrel in rocky brush, home movie wildlife, evergreen mountain vista, and mid-century travel scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Colorado or 1958 mountain footage, then broader home-movie wildlife and scenic nature material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A small squirrel moves through rocky, leaf-covered ground in Colorado-associated 1958 8mm home-movie footage. — Close view of a squirrel navigating rocks, dry leaves, and low vegetation.

Soft 8mm frame of rocky terrain and sparse vegetation, with the squirrel partly visible near the edge of the shot. — The camera follows rocky ground and brush as the squirrel moves near the frame edge.

A blurred handheld 8mm view of rocks, soil, and low green brush as the camera shifts across the terrain. — Handheld movement blurs the rocky ground and low plants during the close nature shot.

Colorado-associated 1958 8mm frame showing evergreen trees in the foreground and a hazy mountain valley beyond. — The view opens from the close ground detail to evergreens and a distant mountain valley.

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