Colorado USA-1958: Sky Blue Lake Encircled By Dense Forest Of Green Trees With Mountains

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

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Sky Blue Lake Encircled By Dense Forest Of Green Trees... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a serene mountain lake in Colorado, its deep blue waters encircled by a dense forest of green pine trees. Rolling hills and distant snow-dusted peaks rise under a pale sky, viewed from a roadside perspective with a paved path in the foreground. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, with a brief, shaky transition to a dark, wooded hillside. This archival clip evokes mid-century Americana and outdoor nostalgia.

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: 123596114

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: Useful for 1950s Colorado travel, outdoor recreation, public-land scenery, or mid-century American road-trip sequences needing non-commercial mountain lake atmosphere.
Period detail: The paved roadside viewpoint, saturated color 8mm stock, and visitor-style framing support a late-1950s home-movie context without identifying a specific lake or landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a traveler pausing beside a road to film a scenic lake and mountain view rather than a staged landscape setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blue mountain lake, evergreen shoreline, distant hills, pale sky, roadside pavement, grassy foreground, and a dark wooded edge at the right.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, soft focus, slight handheld instability, rounded frame edges, and saturated blues and greens typical of amateur color film scanning.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a scenic insert, road-trip cutaway, regional establishing beat, or quiet memory transition before or after other Colorado travel footage.
Historical context: The view reflects mid-century leisure travel and amateur filming of western mountain scenery, while the frames do not show people, signs, vehicles, or named sites.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable signage are visible, but copyright status and any location or property restrictions should still be reviewed before publication.
Research search match: Researcher matches include 1958 Colorado 8mm mountain lake, vintage home movie alpine lake, roadside forest lake view, and 1950s American travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1958 Colorado footage, and then with broader mountain lake, forest, and road-trip home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing a blue lake bordered by evergreens, distant mountain ridges, roadside pavement, and grass in the foreground. — Roadside view across a blue mountain lake toward evergreen forest and distant hills.

1958 Colorado home-movie frame with a blue lake, pine-lined shore, mountain ridges, paved road edge, and trees along the right side. — Blue lake and pine shoreline viewed from a roadside pullout or path.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame with a slightly soft roadside view of a mountain lake, evergreen forest, distant hills, grass, and pavement. — Slightly soft handheld view of the lake, trees, road, and mountain backdrop.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame during a shaky moment, showing a blurred blue lake, evergreen shore, mountain ridges, roadside grass, and dark trees. — Blurred handheld transition across the roadside lake and wooded mountain view.

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