Colorado-1958: Suspension Bridge Spanning Mountain Canyon

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

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Suspension Bridge Spanning Mountain Canyon — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping view of a suspension bridge spanning a deep canyon in Colorado. The footage, framed by the dark edges of a projector, shows the bridge's tall white towers against a backdrop of layered mountain ranges under a bright, overcast sky. The image has a distinct blue and purple color cast typical of aged film, with visible grain and slight motion blur. The camera remains mostly static, offering a serene, nostalgic glimpse of mid-century American infrastructure and 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: 123591327

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1950s documentary or education requests for Colorado landscape travel views, suspension bridge infrastructure, and mid-century home-movie scenic inserts.
Period detail: The 8mm home-movie framing, saturated color shift, and distant highway-style suspension bridge may show a late-1950s visitor view of Colorado canyon scenery.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds a visitor-shot overlook perspective, valuing the bridge and mountain vista more than action or staged activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white suspension bridge tower, canyon span, dark foreground foliage, layered mountains, bright overcast sky, and projector-edge borders.
Film character: The clip carries aged 8mm texture with blue-purple color cast, soft focus, visible grain, slight blur, and uneven exposure at the frame edges.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief scenic insert, travel transition, infrastructure cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a Colorado or American West sequence.
Historical context: The footage places a modern bridge within a broad mountain landscape, reflecting a tourist or family-film view of roads, viewpoints, and western scenery.
Research note: No people, brands, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property or infrastructure permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1958 Colorado 8mm suspension bridge, vintage home movie canyon bridge, and mid-century mountain travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Colorado 1958 footage, then broader vintage bridge, canyon, mountain, or American West travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing a white suspension bridge crossing a canyon with mountains beyond and dark projector borders. — Suspension bridge and mountain vista seen from a distant overlook.

Colorado home-movie frame with a distant suspension bridge, dark canyon foreground, and blue-purple mountain ranges. — Bridge tower and span set against layered mountain ridges.

1958 Colorado frame showing the suspension bridge from an overlook, with softened focus, foliage, canyon, and mountains. — Distant canyon bridge viewed through soft, aged 8mm color.

Colorado 8mm still with a suspension bridge crossing a dark canyon beneath blue-toned mountain ridges and a bright sky. — Suspension bridge crossing the canyon below a broad mountain backdrop.

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