Colorado-1958: Sunny Day Overlooking Tan Mountain Face With Tall Shrubs

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

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Sunny Day Overlooking Tan Mountain Face With Tall Shrubs — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched desert landscape in Colorado. A towering, tan-colored mountain face dominates the frame, its rugged surface marked by deep shadows and natural crevices. Lush green shrubs in the foreground contrast with the arid rock, swaying slightly in the breeze. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a natural, unscripted feel, evoking mid-century Americana and outdoor exploration. This archival clip offers authentic, nostalgic footage for documentaries, historical projects, or retro-themed content.

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: 123586436

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 requests for 1950s Colorado home-movie landscape footage for documentary cutaways, regional history sequences, or mid-century travel context.
Period detail: The frame may show a 1958 visitor view of a dry Colorado rock face, with no vehicles, people, signs, or built structures visible to date the scene from the image alone.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries the value of an unstaged traveler pause, observing a sunlit natural formation from a fixed outdoor vantage point.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tan jagged rock, blue sky, dense green shrubs, dark crevice shadows, uneven film borders, and slight frame-to-frame composition shifts.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, rounded frame edges, and steady handheld framing typical of mid-century home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quiet landscape insert, travel transition, location-establishing cutaway, or reflective memory beat between family or road-trip scenes.
Historical context: The scene reflects mid-century amateur travel filming of western U.S. scenery, emphasizing natural landscape rather than people, roads, or tourism infrastructure.
Research note: No people, brands, or readable marks are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any location or land-use concerns separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1958 8mm Colorado landscape, vintage home movie desert shrubs, tan rock face, sunny mountain cutaway, and western travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then Colorado 1958 travel scenes, then broader 1950s western landscape and outdoor home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing a sunlit tan rock face rising behind thick green shrubs under blue sky. — Sunlit rock face and shrubs in a Colorado landscape.

1958 Colorado home-movie view of a jagged tan rock formation, partly shadowed, with shrubs filling the foreground. — Jagged tan rock formation seen above foreground shrubs.

1958 Colorado 8mm still with pale tan rock, leafy green foreground growth, and a clear sky in bright daylight. — Bright daylight on pale rock and dense shrub growth.

1958 Colorado home-movie frame showing a sunlit rocky slope above shrubs, with dark 8mm frame borders visible. — Rocky slope and shrubs held in a steady landscape view.

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