Colorado USA-1958: Ski Lift Chairlifts Ascending Mountain Slopes

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

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Ski Lift Chairlifts Ascending Mountain Slopes — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a scenic mountain ski lift in Colorado. White chairlifts glide along cables against a backdrop of grassy slopes and rocky hills, with one seat occupied by a passenger. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and a slightly faded color palette with purplish tones, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American vacation. The camera remains steady, focusing on the lift's movement through the natural landscape.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123592177

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 Colorado recreation requests needing archival home-movie ski-lift or mountain-resort cutaways.
Period detail: The open white chairlift seats, soft color stock, and casual mountain setting may show mid-century ski-area infrastructure.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves a visitor-shot view of chairlifts moving uphill, with attention on the ride and landscape rather than a staged scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include chairlift towers, suspended white chairs, cable lines, grassy slopes, rocky hillside, shrubs, and a distant passenger.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, visible grain, faded color, purplish cast, and steady framing typical of scanned home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, travel transition, recreation cutaway, or memory beat for mountain tourism.
Historical context: The scene documents leisure travel and ski-area access in a Colorado mountain setting without identifying a specific resort.
Research note: A distant person is visible, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location, and property permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Research matches include 1958 Colorado 8mm ski lift footage, vintage chairlift home movie, and 1950s mountain recreation cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel vacation footage, then Colorado 1958 material, then broader vintage ski and mountain recreation clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing white chairlift seats moving past a tower on grassy, rocky mountain terrain. — Chairlifts ascend past a lift tower on a mountain slope.

1958 Colorado home-movie frame with chairlift seats and cable lines crossing a grassy, rocky ski-area slope. — Open chairlift seats move along cables over the hillside.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing chairlifts near a tower, including one occupied seat on the mountain lift. — A distant passenger rides one chair as the lift passes the tower.

1958 Colorado home-movie frame of white chairlift seats and cables against a grassy, rocky mountain slope. — Chairlift seats continue uphill across the mountain slope.

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