Colorado-1958: State Penitentiary Tour Sign And Classic Cars

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

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State Penitentiary Tour Sign And Classic Cars — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage clip captures a sunny day at the Colorado State Penitentiary. A white sign details tour hours and admission fees for adults and children. Classic American cars from the late 1950s are parked along the roadside, surrounded by lush green trees. The view, likely from a moving vehicle, shows the prison entrance with a ticket booth and a chain-link fence, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century travel and public institutions.

Licensing & Technical Details

Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123586696

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 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 documentary requests needing visitor-shot Colorado institutional travel footage, roadside signage, and mid-century car context.
Period detail: The tour-hours sign, admission prices, parked finned automobiles, and color 8mm look support a late-1950s setting at the Colorado State Penitentiary.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor perspective, apparently filmed from or near a car while approaching the sign, parked cars, booth, fencing, and prison entrance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a penitentiary tour sign, roadside parking, classic cars, mature trees, a small booth, chain-link fencing, roadway markings, and distant buildings.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight blur, dark frame edges, and handheld or vehicle-based movement typical of home-movie travel filming.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a brief establishing insert, road-trip transition, institutional cutaway, or memory beat for mid-century public-tour imagery.
Historical context: The frames show a period when a state prison could appear as a roadside tour stop, with admission information presented beside parked family automobiles.
Research note: No people or brands are visible, but the penitentiary setting and readable institutional sign may need context review separate from copyright clearance.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Colorado 8mm prison tour sign, Colorado State Penitentiary entrance, 1950s classic cars, and mid-century travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1958 Colorado travel scenes, then broader 1950s roadside institutions, cars, and public-tour footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado footage showing a State Penitentiary tour sign, roadside parking, classic cars, trees, and institutional buildings beyond. — Tour-hours and admission sign stands near parked cars outside the Colorado State Penitentiary.

Colorado State Penitentiary sign remains in view, with 1950s cars parked along the road and trees shading the institutional grounds. — The sign lists visitor tour times and admission fees near a line of mid-century cars.

Visitor-shot view toward the Colorado State Penitentiary entrance area, with booth, fencing, roadway, parked car, trees, and hillside beyond. — A road leads toward the entrance area, passing a booth and chain-link fence.

Final frame shows the Colorado State Penitentiary entrance approach, including the small booth, fence line, road, cars, trees, and hillside. — The entrance approach appears from a vehicle-height viewpoint, with fencing and a booth ahead.

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