Colorado-1958: Automobiles Travel Over Two Towered Suspension Bridge In

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

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Automobiles Travel Over Two Towered Suspension Bridge In — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic suspension bridge spanning a deep canyon in Colorado. The footage shows automobiles traveling across the bridge, with rugged mountainous terrain and rocky cliffs visible in the foreground and background. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics—soft focus, natural color shifts, and subtle grain—evoking a nostalgic mid-century American travel experience. The wide-angle perspective emphasizes the bridge's engineering and the vastness of the landscape under an overcast sky.

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: 123591288

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: 1950s Colorado travel footage suited to documentary requests for mid-century road trips, canyon bridges, mountain infrastructure, and home-movie views of automobiles in rugged terrain.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1950s roadside tourism through the metadata date, with small automobiles crossing a towered suspension bridge in a mountainous canyon landscape.
Home-movie behavior: The viewpoint feels like a visitor filming from an overlook, holding on the bridge and canyon as cars move across the span rather than staging any action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a two-towered suspension bridge, automobiles, rocky canyon walls, distant mountains, an overcast sky, guardrails or cables, and 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm focus, muted color shifts, exposure variation, visible grain, and slight handheld instability that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, travel transition, infrastructure cutaway, or memory beat for a mid-century American West road journey.
Historical context: The frames place automobile travel against dramatic mountain engineering, suggesting a tourist encounter with canyon infrastructure in Colorado without identifying a specific landmark.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but bridge identity, location claims, copyright status, and any property or access issues still require review.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1958 8mm Colorado bridge footage, vintage cars on suspension bridge, home movie canyon travel, and mid-century mountain road trip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with Colorado 1958 travel material, then with broader bridge, canyon, automobile, and American West tourism scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado home-movie frame showing a towered suspension bridge over a canyon, with automobiles and distant mountains visible. — A towered suspension bridge spans a rocky canyon in a soft, wide 8mm view.

1958 Colorado travel footage frame with a suspension bridge, canyon rocks, muted cars, and mountain ridges under a pale sky. — The bridge remains centered as cars appear near the canyon crossing.

Colorado 1958 8mm frame showing the suspension bridge across rugged canyon terrain with distant hills and visible film grain. — A wide overlook angle shows the bridge structure against rugged canyon terrain.

Late frame from the 1958 Colorado home movie, showing a darker mountain and canyon view with part of the suspension bridge visible. — The view shifts darker, emphasizing mountains and canyon depth around the bridge crossing.

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