Colorado-1958: Scenic Desert Landscape With Red Rock Formations

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

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Scenic Desert Landscape With Red Rock Formations — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping desert landscape in Colorado. Rolling hills covered in green shrubs stretch toward distant red rock formations under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural film imperfections, offering an authentic slice of mid-century Americana. The camera remains steady, presenting a panoramic view of the rugged terrain, evoking a sense of quiet exploration and nostalgia.

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: 123585972

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: Supports 1950s Colorado travel, landscape, road-trip, and regional nature requests needing brief archival desert terrain coverage.
Period detail: The frames show color 8mm home-movie views of shrub-covered hills and red rock formations, with the 1958 date supported by clip metadata rather than visible signage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, pausing on a scenic overlook without people, narration, or staged activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tan foreground ground, green scrub hills, distant red rock ridges, pale blue sky, scattered clouds, and black film-frame borders.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, gate edges, and contact-sheet frame divisions give the footage a mid-century physical-film texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a short establishing insert, road-trip transition, regional cutaway, or quiet memory beat between travel scenes.
Historical context: The view reflects mid-century amateur travel filming of western U.S. scenery, emphasizing landscape observation rather than a documented event.
Research note: No people, brands, or private interiors are visible, but users should still assess copyright status and any location or land-use permissions separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1958 Colorado 8mm landscape, vintage home movie red rock desert, and mid-century western travel scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then Colorado 1958 travel material, then broader vintage western landscape and road-trip scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing tan foreground, green scrub hills, and distant red rock formations beneath scattered clouds. — Wide scenic view across scrubland toward red rock formations.

Vintage 8mm Colorado landscape frame with rolling green terrain, distant reddish rock outcrops, and visible film gate edges. — Rolling shrub-covered terrain with red rock ridges in the distance.

1958 Colorado home-movie frame showing a closer red rock formation rising behind scrub-covered hills, with faded color and grain. — Closer scenic view of a red rock formation above desert scrub.

Color 8mm frame from Colorado showing red rock formations, green brush in the foreground, and a softly faded sky. — Red rock ridge seen across a scrubby western landscape.

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