Colorado-1958: Mountain Landslide with Rocky Cliff

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

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Mountain Landslide with Rocky Cliff — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic landslide on a mountain slope in Colorado. The footage shows a steep, reddish-brown cliff face with exposed rock layers, partially covered by green trees and shrubs. A dirt road runs along the base of the hill, now obscured by debris from the slide. The sky is overcast and pale, contributing to the somber mood. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color fading, with a dark border framing the scene. No vehicles or people are visible, emphasizing the raw power of nature. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse of a natural disaster from the late 1950s, perfect for historical documentaries, nature studies, 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: 123585849

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 archive requests needing home-movie evidence of a mountain landslide or road obstruction for documentary, education, or environmental history edits.
Period detail: The 1958 8mm source and faded color stock place the scene in the late 1950s, while the visible dirt mountain road and undeveloped slope support a rural Colorado setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of a passerby or traveler pausing to record an unusual roadside landslide without staging, people, vehicles, or narrated action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pale cloudy sky, green hillside brush, exposed reddish rock layers, slide debris, a dirt road at the slope base, pine-like trees, and dark film borders.
Film character: The footage carries soft 8mm texture with visible grain, color fade, mild blur, uneven exposure, and gate framing that preserve its home-movie origin.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a short cutaway, environmental insert, road-closure transition, or memory beat before or after narration about mountain travel or natural hazards.
Historical context: The scene visually documents a rural mountain road affected by slope failure, showing how a natural event could interrupt travel without showing official response activity.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or identifiable private property are visible, but users should still clear copyright separately from any location or land-use concerns.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Colorado 8mm landslide footage, mountain road slide debris, vintage home movie natural hazard, and rural roadside slope failure.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Colorado 1958 travel footage, then broader mountain road, landslide, weather, or natural-disaster material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing an exposed rocky slope, brush, and a dirt road at the base with no people or vehicles visible. — Rocky roadside slope with trees and pale overcast sky, seen from a fixed home-movie viewpoint.

1958 Colorado roadside view of a steep rock face and brush above a dirt road, framed by dark 8mm film edges. — Exposed mountain road cut and vegetation with slide-scarred rock visible across the frame.

Colorado home-movie frame from 1958 showing a steep roadside slope with reddish rock, vegetation, and no visible traffic. — A slide-affected hillside and road base appear through faded color 8mm film texture.

Late-1950s Colorado 8mm frame of a rural mountain road below exposed rock and trees, with no people, vehicles, or signs visible. — Rural mountain roadside with exposed strata, trees, and debris along the slope base.

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