Colorado-1958: Funicular Railway Ascending Mountain With Passengers

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

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Funicular Railway Ascending Mountain With Passengers — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a funicular railway ascending a steep mountain pass in Colorado. A green cable car travels up the rails between rugged rock faces, with passengers visible inside. A man in a light-colored uniform stands near the station platform, and a small wooden shed sits beside the tracks. The footage shows natural film grain and warm color tones, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century mountain transportation.

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: 123589708

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s editorial sequences needing Colorado mountain transportation, visitor travel, or mid-century rail infrastructure from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The clip may show a mid-century funicular station with a green cable car, simple platform structures, metal railings, and clothing consistent with visitor travel in 1958.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective, watching the car and platform from a distance rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a green funicular car, steep rails, rocky canyon walls, a small wooden shed, station steps, metal handrails, and passengers or staff near the platform.
Film character: The 8mm image carries visible grain, soft focus, warm color, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that support its home-movie archive character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, travel transition, transportation cutaway, or memory beat within a Colorado mountain tourism sequence.
Historical context: The scene places leisure travel and mountain transport in a rugged Colorado setting without proving a specific railway, landmark, or operator from the frames alone.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed, while copyright, location access, and property questions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1958 Colorado funicular railway, 8mm mountain rail travel, vintage cable car passengers, and home movie Colorado transportation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel footage, then with Colorado 1958 travel scenes, and then with broader mountain railway or mid-century tourism material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado home-movie frame showing a green funicular car, station platform, shed, and rocky canyon walls. — A green funicular car stands near the station structure between steep rock faces.

1958 Colorado footage frame with a green funicular car at a mountain station and a person standing near the platform. — The station platform, railings, and shed sit beside the funicular track in a narrow rocky pass.

Home-movie frame from Colorado in 1958 showing the funicular track and station structures in a rocky mountain setting. — The camera looks toward the funicular track and adjacent shed as the railway climbs through rock walls.

1958 Colorado frame showing visitors or staff near a funicular station with a green car and rugged rock faces behind it. — People stand near the lower platform area as the funicular station fills the rocky mountain frame.

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