Colorado-1958: A View Of People Riding Horses In The Desert

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

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A View Of People Riding Horses In The Desert — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched view of rugged mountain peaks in Colorado, seen through a dark frame. The scene transitions to a dynamic shot from inside a moving vehicle, showing two riders on horseback traversing a lush green hillside. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color saturation, and natural motion, evoking a nostalgic 1950s Americana road trip. The riders wear period-appropriate hats, and the landscape blends arid rock formations with verdant foliage under a clear blue sky.

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: 123586494

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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, western recreation, roadside landscape, or horseback-riding inserts in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century leisure travel through Colorado, with riders in brimmed hats and a camera view from inside or beside a vehicle.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged visitor perspective, shifting from scenic rock formations to a brief glimpse of horseback riders passing through vegetation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rocky mountain forms, blue sky, dark film-frame edges, roadside vegetation, riders on horseback, hats, and part of a vehicle interior or hood.
Film character: The 8mm image shows warm color, soft focus, visible grain, gate framing, exposure variation, and handheld home-movie movement.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short travel cutaway, western recreation insert, road-trip transition, or memory beat between broader Colorado scenes.
Historical context: The frames reflect leisure travel and outdoor recreation in a rugged Colorado landscape, without enough visual evidence to identify a specific park or landmark.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or audible music are indicated, and copyright clearance is separate from personal rights.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1958 8mm Colorado horseback riding, vintage home movie mountain travel, or mid-century western road-trip footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent scenes from the same reel, then with 1958 Colorado travel footage, then with horseback riding, mountain landscape, or western vacation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing sunlit rocky formations, dark vegetation, and a blue sky within heavy gate framing. — Sunlit rock formations appear beyond dark foreground vegetation in a framed landscape view.

Colorado mountain scenery appears through dark 8mm gate edges, with warm rock tones and shadowed vegetation below. — A steady scenic view holds on rugged rock formations and shadowed roadside vegetation.

A 1958 Colorado home-movie frame shows rocky terrain and dark foreground brush within visible 8mm frame borders. — The mountain view continues with blue sky, sunlit stone, and deep foreground shadow.

Two distant riders in hats move on horseback through green Colorado vegetation, with a vehicle edge visible in the foreground. — Horseback riders pass through a green hillside area below sunlit rock formations.

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