Colorado USA-1958: Mountains with Evergreen Trees Under Clear Sky

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

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Mountains with Evergreen Trees Under Clear Sky — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping view of Colorado's mountainous landscape. Tall evergreen trees frame the foreground, silhouetted against a bright blue sky with scattered white clouds. The distant peaks, tinged with purple and blue hues, rise majestically under the sun. A utility pole briefly enters the frame, adding a touch of human presence to the natural scene. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color saturation, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical projects.

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: 123593662

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

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: 1950s Colorado 8mm mountain scenery useful for documentary inserts, regional travel context, nature cutaways, or midcentury home-movie atmosphere.
Period detail: The utility pole, handheld framing, saturated color, and 8mm home-movie texture support a late-1950s travel or vacation view without identifying a specific landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged roadside or passenger-view feel, with the camera drifting past trees, mountains, and utility poles as a traveler records the landscape.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include evergreen forest, distant mountain ridges, blue sky, white clouds, a roadside slope, a utility pole, and dark frame-edge shadows.
Film character: The footage shows soft focus, visible grain, saturated blue-purple color, exposure shifts, and handheld movement consistent with scanned 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a scenic transition, regional establishing insert, travel-memory beat, or quiet cutaway between Colorado or Western outdoor sequences.
Historical context: The view documents midcentury amateur travel attention to mountain scenery, with a small trace of infrastructure in an otherwise natural landscape.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright and any location or property permissions should still be assessed by the buyer.
Research search match: Search match for 1958 Colorado 8mm mountain footage, vintage evergreen forest view, home-movie Rocky Mountain scenery, and midcentury outdoor travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Colorado travel footage, then broader vintage mountain, forest, and roadside landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 8mm Colorado landscape view with dark evergreens in the foreground and blue-purple mountain ridges beyond. — Evergreen silhouettes and distant mountain ridges under scattered clouds.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing evergreen silhouettes, distant mountains, scattered clouds, and a roadside utility pole. — A utility pole crosses the mountain view amid tall evergreens.

1958 Colorado home-movie frame with tall conifers silhouetted against a hazy blue mountain ridge and bright clouded sky. — Tall conifers partially obscure the distant ridge and clouds.

1958 Colorado 8mm view of a forested roadside, evergreen trees, and a distant pointed mountain peak in bright light. — A forested roadside opens toward a distant mountain peak.

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