Colorado-1958: View Of Sunrise On Rock Formation On A Clear Day

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

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View Of Sunrise On Rock Formation On A Clear Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched view of a dramatic rock formation in Colorado. The golden light of sunrise illuminates the rugged sandstone peaks against a clear blue sky, with dark silhouettes of trees in the foreground. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering a nostalgic glimpse of the Colorado landscape. The camera remains steady, presenting a serene, timeless natural scene.

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: 123586485

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: Useful for 1950s Colorado travel, landscape, or home-movie sequences needing a brief scenic view of sunlit sandstone formations.
Period detail: The visible 8mm color, soft focus, and contact-frame edges support a mid-century amateur travel-film feel, with no vehicles, clothing, or signage to refine the date.
Home-movie behavior: The clip holds a visitor-shot view from a shaded foreground toward the rock formation, emphasizing observation rather than staged activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tan rock spires, blue sky, dark tree silhouettes, distant horizon, frame borders, and uneven exposure across the contact sheet.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, warm color saturation, slight exposure falloff, and steady amateur framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a scenic insert, travel transition, location cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a Colorado or Western landscape sequence.
Historical context: The frames show leisure or travel-oriented landscape filming in Colorado, without visible people, signage, or built context to support a more specific historical claim.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any location-based property considerations.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1950s 8mm Colorado rock formation, vintage home movie mountain landscape, sunrise sandstone view, or Western travel scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Colorado views, then broader vintage Western landscape and sunrise material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing a sunlit sandstone rock formation rising above shaded trees beneath a clear blue sky. — Wide view of a sunlit rock formation with dark trees in the foreground.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame with sandstone spires, tree silhouettes, and a distant horizon under a clear sky. — Rock spires sit above a dark foreground, with a distant horizon at right.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing part of the rock formation, shaded vegetation, and blue sky in a visitor-shot landscape view. — The formation is partly cropped as the frame looks across shaded trees.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame of a sunlit sandstone ridge above dark foreground trees, framed by visible contact-sheet borders. — A sunlit ridge remains centered above the shadowed tree line.

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