Colorado-1958: Suspension Bridge Spanning Canyon

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

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Suspension Bridge Spanning Canyon — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a distant white suspension bridge spanning a rugged canyon in Colorado. The bridge, with its tall towers and cables, connects two rocky sides of the canyon under an overcast sky. The footage shows natural film grain, slight color fading, and minor scratches, characteristic of Super 8 home movie footage. The scene is static, offering a nostalgic view of mid-century infrastructure in a remote landscape.

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: 123591247

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 infrastructure, canyon travel, and mid-century home-movie inserts needing a distant suspension bridge view.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, soft focus, muted color, and static distant framing support a late-1950s amateur travel-film context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip reflects a visitor pausing at an overlook to record a bridge and canyon rather than staging a formal scenic shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white suspension bridge, twin towers, cable lines, rocky canyon slopes, distant hills, pale sky, and dark film frame edges.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, faded color, slight exposure variation, frame-edge shadows, and small scratches that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing cutaway, travel-memory insert, or transition into a sequence about roads, bridges, canyons, or Colorado tourism.
Historical context: The view places a large engineered bridge within a rugged western canyon landscape, suggesting mid-century travel interest in scenic infrastructure.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but bridge identity, location specificity, copyright status, and any property restrictions should be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Colorado 8mm bridge footage, vintage canyon suspension bridge, home movie western landscape, and mid-century travel infrastructure.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Colorado 1958 travel footage, then broader bridge, canyon, and western infrastructure material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing a distant white suspension bridge spanning a rugged canyon with hills beyond. — A white suspension bridge crosses a rocky canyon in a distant home-movie view.

Soft 8mm view of a white suspension bridge across a Colorado canyon, with rocky slopes and hazy hills in the background. — The bridge remains centered in a soft, distant view across the canyon.

Faded 1958 Colorado home-movie frame with a white suspension bridge, canyon slopes, and distant hills under a light sky. — Faded color and frame-edge shadows surround the distant canyon bridge view.

Final 8mm frame holds on the white suspension bridge across a rugged Colorado canyon with muted color and visible film wear. — The static shot holds on the bridge and canyon as the 8mm image fades slightly.

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