Colorado-1958: Drive By View Of Factory Buildings From Car

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

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Drive By View Of Factory Buildings From Car — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a drive-by view from a moving car, showcasing a row of industrial factory buildings in Colorado. The footage, filmed through a car window, features a clear blue sky, green grasslands, and a paved road running parallel to the structures. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and motion blur convey a nostalgic, mid-century Americana feel, offering authentic archival footage of 1950s industrial landscapes.

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: 123586531

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 industrial landscape requests needing authentic 8mm drive-by footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial context.
Period detail: The frames show a paved roadside, open grass, low industrial buildings, and mid-century home-movie color, with the 1958 date supported by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged passenger-window perspective, recording ordinary roadside scenery from a moving car rather than a composed industrial survey.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a car hood or windshield edge, paved road, grassy verge, distant factory buildings, low horizon, blue sky, and soft motion blur.
Film character: The 8mm image has visible grain, faded color, soft focus, gate edges, exposure variation, and handheld movement consistent with home-movie scanning.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, transition, travel insert, or memory beat establishing a mid-century roadside industrial setting.
Historical context: The view situates industry beside open grassland and roadway, offering visual context for automobile-era observation of built landscapes in Colorado.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, property, and location identification should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Colorado 8mm drive-by factory buildings, vintage roadside industrial view, and mid-century home movie car-window footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Colorado 1958 material, then broader 1950s road travel or industrial landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing distant low factory buildings across grass and a paved road from a car-window viewpoint. — Factory buildings pass in the distance beyond a roadside grass strip.

1958 Colorado drive-by view with low industrial structures, open grass, paved road, and car interior framing at the edge. — A moving car passes low industrial buildings under a clear sky.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame with motion-blurred roadside grass, distant buildings, a paved road, and blue sky seen from a moving car. — Motion blur softens the roadside and distant buildings during the drive-by.

1958 Colorado home-movie frame showing a car-edge view of grassland, a road, and distant industrial buildings under blue sky. — The car continues past open grassland with industrial buildings on the horizon.

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