Colorado USA-1958: Man Riding Cable Car Through Mountain Area

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

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Man Riding Cable Car Through Mountain Area — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a scenic mountain landscape in Colorado. The footage opens with sweeping views of snow-dusted peaks and forested slopes under a cloudy sky, showcasing the natural beauty of the region. The scene transitions to a man riding a cable car through a tourist center, with a rustic lodge and evergreen trees visible in the background. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic 1950s vacation atmosphere. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content about mid-century American travel.

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: 123593066

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 U.S. travel or Colorado mountain vacation requests needing brief scenic and tourist-transport home-movie footage.
Period detail: The chairlift-style cable car, rustic lodge setting, and casual visitor clothing may show mid-century mountain tourism details.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves a visitor-shot vacation perspective, moving from mountain views to a man riding through a tourist center.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include snow-dusted mountains, forested slopes, cloudy sky, cable car chairs, a seated man, lodge building, evergreens, and rocky ground.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, color shift, rounded frame edges, and handheld exposure changes that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a travel insert, mountain transition, tourist-site cutaway, or brief memory beat in a mid-century vacation sequence.
Historical context: The footage reflects leisure travel in a mountain resort setting without identifying a specific attraction or landmark beyond Colorado metadata.
Research note: A person is visible from the cable car, so likeness review may be needed separately from copyright and any location or property considerations.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Colorado home movie, 8mm mountain tourist center, vintage chairlift ride, and mid-century U.S. vacation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then Colorado 1958 travel scenes, then broader 1950s mountain tourism or family vacation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing distant snow-dusted ridges above a dark forested mountain slope. — Distant mountain ridges and forested slope in a cloudy Colorado landscape.

Colorado mountain landscape in soft 8mm color, with pale ridges above a dark wooded slope. — Soft mountain view with distant ridges and a forested slope.

1958 Colorado tourist-center view with a man riding a cable car chair past trees and a rustic lodge. — A man rides a cable car chair through a mountain tourist center.

Man on a cable car chair in a Colorado mountain tourist area, with lodge, trees, and hillside behind him. — Cable car rider passes a lodge and evergreens in the mountain tourist area.

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