Colorado USA-1958: Mountain Lake in Forested Valley

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

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Mountain Lake in Forested Valley — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a breathtaking aerial view of a vibrant blue lake nestled within a dense evergreen forest in Colorado. The footage, framed by the classic black borders of a projected film reel, shows a winding dirt road tracing the shoreline, with rolling hills and distant mountains under a clear sky. The rich, saturated colors and subtle film grain evoke a strong sense of mid-century Americana and outdoor adventure.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Aerial
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123596292

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, wilderness, and mid-century outdoor recreation sequences needing a brief home-movie view of a mountain lake in forested terrain.
Period detail: The 8mm frame edges, saturated color, soft focus, and high vantage point support a late-1950s home-movie travel context without identifying a specific landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a traveler pausing to record a scenic overlook, valuing landscape memory rather than staged action or performance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a vivid blue lake, evergreen forest, shoreline road or path, grassy slope, scattered rocks, distant hills, and black film-frame borders.
Film character: Soft 8mm grain, mild exposure variation, saturated blues and greens, and projected-frame borders give the footage a tactile home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a scenic insert, location-establishing cutaway, travel transition, or quiet memory beat in a Colorado or mountain-road sequence.
Historical context: The view reflects mid-century recreational filming of American mountain scenery, with emphasis on lakes, forests, roads, and elevated landscape viewpoints.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any location or property implications for their use.
Research search match: Researcher searches might include 1958 Colorado 8mm lake footage, vintage mountain lake home movie, forested valley travel film, and mid-century Colorado scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1958 Colorado travel footage, then broader vintage mountain, forest, lake, and road-trip scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm view of a blue lake in a forested valley, seen from a high overlook with a pale shoreline road. — A blue lake sits below dense evergreens, with a road tracing part of the shoreline.

1958 Colorado home-movie frame showing a vivid blue lake surrounded by evergreen forest and a light road near the shore. — The lake and surrounding forest remain centered within the 8mm frame border.

Soft 8mm frame of a Colorado mountain lake in 1958, with forest, a shoreline road, and hills beyond. — A high overlook frames the lake, forest, and pale road along the far shore.

1958 Colorado 8mm view of a blue mountain lake below a wooded slope, with a road or path along the shore. — The final frame holds on the lake and evergreen valley from the same elevated viewpoint.

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