Colorado USA-1958: Old Style Red Car Parked By A Lake Surrounded By Sheer Cliff

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

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Old Style Red Car Parked By A Lake Surrounded By Sheer Cliff — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a classic red Chevrolet parked on a dirt road beside a calm alpine lake in Colorado. Towering sheer cliffs and snow-dusted peaks rise dramatically in the background under a deep blue sky. The footage exhibits natural film grain and rich, slightly faded colors characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. The static shot emphasizes the serene, untouched beauty of the mountain landscape and the nostalgic presence of mid-century American automotive design.

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: 123596633

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: Useful for 1950s Colorado travel, mountain-road, alpine-lake, and mid-century road-trip sequences needing real 8mm home-movie atmosphere.
Period detail: The red two-tone car, 8mm color stock, dirt roadside, and lakeside overlook may show a late-1950s family travel stop in the Colorado mountains.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds from a visitor's roadside viewpoint, recording the parked car and surrounding alpine scenery without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red car, dirt road or turnout, dark alpine lake, steep rocky cliffs, patches of snow, blue sky, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip carries visible 8mm grain, soft focus, mild color fading, gate weave, and exposure variation that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm cutaway, road-trip insert, mountain transition, or reflective memory beat in a mid-century travel sequence.
Historical context: The view places automobile travel beside a remote mountain lake, suggesting leisure access to dramatic Colorado scenery in the 1950s.
Research note: No people, faces, or readable logos are visible, but vehicle identification, location, copyright, and any property considerations should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Colorado 8mm mountain lake footage, vintage red car roadside, alpine cliffs home movie, and 1950s American road trip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Colorado 1958 mountain travel footage, then with broader vintage car and alpine-lake themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing a red car at a dirt lakeside turnout with rocky cliffs and patches of snow beyond. — A red car sits beside an alpine lake with steep Colorado cliffs in the background.

1958 Colorado home-movie frame with a red car in the foreground, a still alpine lake, and sheer rocky slopes under blue sky. — The parked car anchors a quiet lakeside view beneath high rocky slopes.

Colorado 1958 8mm frame showing the rear side of a red car near a calm mountain lake backed by pale rocky cliffs. — A mid-century car is parked on a dirt edge beside a still mountain lake.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame of a red car partly cropped at a lakeside overlook, with dark water, cliffs, snow traces, and blue sky. — The final frame holds on the car and lake, framed by steep cliffs and visible film edges.

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