Colorado-1958: Car Drives Through Red Rock Formations

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

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Car Drives Through Red Rock Formations — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a classic American road trip through Colorado's dramatic red rock formations. A vintage car with a roof rack navigates a winding road, framed by towering sandstone spires and scattered pine trees under a bright blue sky. The footage exhibits authentic Super 8 film grain, slight color fading, and natural lens vignetting, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century travel and the rugged beauty of the Colorado landscape.

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: 123586342

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 U.S. road-trip or Colorado travel sequences needing authentic home-movie footage of a car passing red rock scenery.
Period detail: The clip may show a mid-century automobile with a roof rack on a paved scenic road, consistent with the stated 1958 home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on the road, car, and rock formations as a travel memory rather than a staged scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a vintage car, roof rack, curving road, red sandstone formations, dark shrubs, scattered trees, blue sky, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, color shift, exposure variation, and dark gate edges that preserve the physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, scenic transition, or memory beat in a sequence about mid-century travel, highways, or western landscapes.
Historical context: The scene reflects leisure travel through a dramatic western landscape, with the car and roadside viewpoint grounding the footage in domestic tourism.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in these frames, but copyright and location-use review should still be handled separately.
Research search match: Searches for 1958 Colorado 8mm road trip, vintage car red rock formations, mid-century western travel footage, or home movie scenic drive may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel footage, then other Colorado 1958 travel shots, then broader 1950s road-trip or red rock landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A 1958 Colorado home-movie frame shows a dark vintage car with a roof rack driving past red rock formations. — A mid-century car rounds a scenic road beneath red rock cliffs.

Colorado red rock formations and dark trees fill the frame in softly exposed 8mm home-movie footage. — Red rock formations and trees dominate the roadside view.

A handheld 8mm view of Colorado red rock formations with trees and shadowed vegetation in the foreground. — The camera holds on sandstone formations and roadside vegetation.

The final frame shows Colorado sandstone formations, scattered trees, and dark foreground brush in 1958 8mm footage. — A closing view of red rock formations framed by trees and shadowed brush.

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