Colorado USA-1958: Recording Of Car Driving Down Highway Through Mountainous

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

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Recording Of Car Driving Down Highway Through Mountainous — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a car driving down a winding highway through a mountainous valley in Colorado. The footage shows a two-lane road flanked by forested hillsides and scattered buildings, with a clear sky and soft clouds above. The camera moves steadily forward, offering a nostalgic view of mid-century American countryside travel. The film exhibits natural grain and slight color fading typical of Super 8 footage from the era.

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: 123593858

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Colorado mountain-road travel footage for documentary inserts, regional history sequences, or mid-century vacation and highway mobility context.
Period detail: The paved two-lane road, simple roadside signs, scattered low buildings, and 8mm color stock may show late-1950s rural mountain travel in Colorado.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a passenger or driver recording forward movement through a mountain valley during a road trip.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a two-lane highway, forested slopes, mountain ridges, roadside signs, scattered buildings, open grass, clouds, and dark 8mm frame edges.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, gate edges, and slight exposure variation give the footage a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel insert, road-transition shot, regional establishing moment, or memory beat between family-vacation scenes.
Historical context: The footage visually places automobile travel within a sparsely built mountain valley, showing roadside development against forested Colorado terrain.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location, roadway, and any property-identification questions still require review.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 8mm Colorado highway, mountain valley road trip, vintage driving footage, and mid-century rural travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Colorado 1958 travel footage, then with broader mountain driving or American road-trip material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing a paved highway through a mountain valley with trees, signs, and scattered buildings. — Forward view down a mountain highway with forested slopes and small roadside structures.

1958 Colorado road-trip frame looking along a two-lane highway past roadside signs and low buildings below forested mountains. — The road continues through a valley bordered by trees, signs, and mountain slopes.

1958 Colorado 8mm view of a curving highway passing a roadside sign and small buildings in a mountain valley. — A curving highway passes a roadside sign and scattered buildings below the mountains.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame of a forested mountain ridge and hillside beneath a bright clouded sky. — A forested ridge fills the frame beneath large clouds and distant mountain forms.

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