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Colorado-1958: Colorado State Penitentiary Tour Sign With 1950s Cars

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

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Colorado State Penitentiary Tour Sign With 1950s Cars — Clip Details

COLORADO-1958: A vintage 8mm film clip captures a white sign for the Colorado State Penitentiary's conducted tours, detailing hours and admission fees. In the background, a row of classic 1950s American cars, including a red and a white sedan, are parked along a tree-lined road. The scene is bathed in bright sunlight, with a clear blue sky and lush green foliage, evoking a nostalgic mid-century Americana atmosphere. The footage, shot from a fixed perspective, shows the sign in sharp focus while the cars and surrounding environment remain slightly out of focus, characteristic of home movie footage from the era.

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
123586681

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

  • colorado
  • sign
  • town
  • cars
  • road
  • side
  • front
  • buildings
  • landmarks
  • 1958
  • 1958 Colorado penitentiary
  • vintage 8mm film
  • 1950s cars
  • classic American automobiles
  • roadside sign
  • Colorado history
  • mid-century Americana
  • archival footage
  • 1950s road trip
  • retro travel
  • vintage tourism
  • 1950s signage
  • 8mm home movie
  • Colorado State Penitentiary
  • 1950s road
  • vintage road trip
  • 1950s nostalgia
  • 1950s travel
  • 1950s roadside

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for requests needing 1950s Colorado institutional tourism, roadside signage, or mid-century travel cutaways for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail
The sign text, admission prices, 1950s cars, bright color 8mm look, and visitor parking area support a late-1950s Colorado setting.
Home-movie behavior
The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, holding on the penitentiary tour sign as a travel record rather than a staged institutional view.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a Colorado State Penitentiary tour sign, parked 1950s cars, a tree-lined road, a small gatehouse-like structure, pavement, shadows, and blue sky.
Film character
The footage shows 8mm color grain, soft focus beyond the sign, slight exposure variation, and fixed home-movie framing with rounded frame edges.
Edit role
An editor could use this as an establishing insert, location cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition into a segment on Colorado institutions or roadside tourism.
Historical context
The sign’s posted tour hours and admission fees show a public-facing institutional visit point within a mid-century automobile travel environment.
Research note
No people, brands, or logos are evident, but the penitentiary sign and grounds should still be reviewed for copyright, location, and property-use context.
Research search match
Matches searches for 1958 Colorado 8mm footage, Colorado State Penitentiary tour sign, 1950s cars on road, prison tourism sign, and vintage institutional landmark footage.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1958 Colorado views, then similar 1950s roadside signs, public institutions, and automobile travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing a State Penitentiary conducted tours sign with parked mid-century cars in the background.
A tour sign stands near a road lined with 1950s cars outside the Colorado State Penitentiary area.
1958 Colorado frame with the penitentiary conducted tours sign in the foreground and 1950s cars parked under trees.
The sign lists tour information while a row of mid-century cars sits along the shaded road behind it.
Color 8mm still of the Colorado State Penitentiary tour sign, with parked 1950s cars and foliage visible behind it.
The visitor-shot frame centers the posted tour sign with cars, trees, and a small structure in the background.
1958 Colorado home-movie frame holding on a penitentiary tour sign, with mid-century cars and trees behind it.
A fixed view records the penitentiary tour sign and nearby visitor parking area in bright daylight.

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