Colorado USA-1958: Cable Car Ascending Green Hills

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

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Cable Car Ascending Green Hills — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage footage captures a scenic mountain landscape in Colorado. The clip opens with a cable car ascending a lush, green hillside, offering views of a rustic lodge nestled among pine trees. The perspective shifts to sweeping panoramic views of rolling hills and distant peaks under a bright blue sky with scattered white clouds. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American outdoor adventure. This archival home movie showcases natural beauty and early recreational infrastructure.

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: 123593253

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: 1950s Colorado home-movie footage suited to documentary requests for mountain recreation, scenic travel, and mid-century outdoor tourism inserts.
Period detail: The visible views show color 8mm-era mountain scenery with saturated blue sky, soft focus, and framed home-movie composition; the cable car and lodge are supported by clip metadata rather than these stills.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on open hills and distant peaks as a travel memory rather than a staged scenic production.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rolling green hills, dark forested slopes, distant mountain ridges, blue sky, scattered white clouds, heavy frame edges, and soft 8mm grain.
Film character: The footage has a physical 8mm look with dense grain, rounded frame edges, mild gate weave, uneven exposure, and rich mid-century color saturation.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a scenic cutaway, travel transition, recreational infrastructure context, or quiet memory beat between Colorado vacation scenes.
Historical context: The material places mountain recreation within an amateur travel record, showing landscape views associated with leisure access in Colorado without identifying a specific site.
Research note: People are flagged in the clip metadata, so likeness review may be needed even though these stills emphasize landscape; copyright, property, and location rights should be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1958 Colorado 8mm mountain view, vintage cable car hillside footage, mid-century Colorado travel film, and home movie mountain panorama.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Colorado travel footage, then broader 1950s mountain recreation or cable car material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing rolling green hills, dark wooded slopes, distant ridges, and a cloud-filled blue sky. — Green mountain slopes and distant ridges fill the frame under scattered white clouds.

1958 Colorado home-movie frame with sunlit green hills, a shadowed mountain ridge, distant peaks, and scattered clouds. — A broad mountain view shows sunlit hills meeting darker ridges in the distance.

1958 Colorado 8mm still showing layered hills, a distant mountain line, bright clouds, and heavy dark film-frame borders. — Layered hills recede toward distant mountains beneath a bright, clouded sky.

1958 Colorado scenic frame with a green foreground hillside, dark ridge line, distant peak, and scattered clouds in blue sky. — The final view holds on a green hillside, distant peak, and dark ridge under passing clouds.

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