Colorado-1958: A High View Of Mountains In The Dry Desert

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

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A High View Of Mountains In The Dry Desert — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping panoramic view of rugged mountain peaks rising above a dry, arid desert landscape in Colorado. The footage reveals a vast expanse of rocky terrain dotted with sparse green shrubs and trees under a pale blue sky with scattered clouds. The warm, slightly faded color palette and visible film grain evoke a strong sense of nostalgia and mid-century Americana. The camera remains steady, offering a serene, elevated perspective of the natural beauty of the Colorado high desert.

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: 123585980

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, landscape, or regional nature sequences needing a brief archival high-desert mountain view.
Period detail: The faded 8mm color, soft focus, and home-movie framing support the 1958 metadata while the visible scene remains a natural mountain landscape.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot viewpoint from an elevated overlook, holding on the scenery rather than staging an action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pale sky, scattered clouds, reddish rock formations, distant ridges, scrub vegetation, dark foreground brush, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character: Soft grain, muted color, slight exposure variation, and contact-frame borders give the footage a mid-century amateur-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quiet establishing insert, travel transition, geography cutaway, or reflective memory beat.
Historical context: The view documents a mid-century home-movie encounter with Colorado's arid mountain scenery without showing roads, buildings, or visitors.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright and any location-specific property concerns should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 8mm Colorado mountain view, vintage home movie desert landscape, high desert overlook, and mid-century scenic travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Colorado views, then broader vintage mountain and dry landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing rugged reddish mountains beyond dry scrub and low trees under a hazy blue sky. — Elevated view across arid scrubland toward distant rocky peaks.

1958 Colorado home-movie frame with a rocky desert mountain formation, sparse shrubs, and distant ridges beneath a pale sky. — Rock formation and desert vegetation viewed from a high vantage point.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing distant rocky mountains over dry scrubland, with faded color and visible film texture. — Distant mountain ridge above a dry, shrub-dotted landscape.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing a wider high-desert panorama with reddish rock outcrops, low hills, and a distant mountain edge. — Wider panoramic view of arid hills and rock formations under scattered clouds.

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