Colorado USA-1958: Man Riding Cable Car up Mountain

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

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Man Riding Cable Car up Mountain — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a man riding a cable car up a mountain in Colorado. The footage shows a hazy, sun-drenched landscape with rolling hills and sparse vegetation under a pale sky. A person stands near a cable car station structure, with support poles and cables visible. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, faded colors, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American vacation. This archival clip offers authentic 1950s outdoor recreation footage.

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: 123592496

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports requests for late-1950s Colorado vacation footage, mountain recreation, aerial tram or cable-car travel, and home-movie views for documentary or museum edits.
Period detail: The 1958 8mm footage may show mid-century mountain tourism infrastructure, with cable supports, open hillside, sparse vegetation, and a visitor's view across Colorado terrain.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged visitor-shot ride, watching the slope, cable hardware, and a distant person rather than presenting a formal travelogue scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a hazy mountain ridge, pale sky, cable lines, support poles, hillside scrub, a small station-like structure, and a distant standing figure.
Film character: Faded color, soft focus, light grain, handheld framing, and sun-washed exposure give the 8mm scan a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel insert, mountain-transport cutaway, vacation memory beat, or transition into a broader Colorado recreation sequence.
Historical context: The scene places a visitor in a mid-century outdoor recreation setting, with the cable-car infrastructure and open slope suggesting mountain sightseeing rather than urban transit.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from any location or property considerations.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1958 Colorado home movie cable car, 8mm mountain tram ride, vintage Colorado vacation footage, and mid-century outdoor recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other Colorado 1958 mountain scenes, then with broader 1950s travel, sightseeing, or transport clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing a hazy mountain ridge and open slope under a washed, pale sky. — A hazy mountain ridge fills the opening frame of the cable-car ride.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame with cable-car supports, lines, hillside scrub, a small structure, and a distant person near the slope. — Cable infrastructure and a distant person appear on the hillside.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing cable poles, overhead lines, hillside vegetation, and a distant person by a small station-like structure. — The ride passes cable poles and a small hillside structure.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame with a distant standing figure, cable poles, overhead line, and open sunlit hillside. — A distant figure stands near the cable supports on the open slope.

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