Colorado USA-1958: Car at Alpine Lake in Snow-Capped Mountains

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

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Car at Alpine Lake in Snow-Capped Mountains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a classic American road trip through Colorado's rugged mountains. A maroon vintage car is parked near a tranquil alpine lake, with snow-dusted peaks rising dramatically in the background under a clear blue sky. The footage shows a quiet, contemplative moment in nature, with the camera panning across the serene landscape. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color shifts, and authentic Super 8 characteristics, evoking a strong sense of nostalgia and mid-century Americana.

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: 123596706

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 American travel, Colorado mountain road-trip, alpine lake, and mid-century outdoor recreation sequences in documentary or museum edits.
Period detail: The parked older maroon station wagon and 8mm color home-movie look support the supplied 1958 period context without identifying a specific model or landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot feel, pausing from a roadside stop to take in a quiet mountain lake and surrounding rock slopes.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a maroon vintage car, pale gravel foreground, blue alpine lake, rocky mountain basin, snow patches, clear sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, soft focus, mild color shift, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that preserve its home-movie archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel insert, scenic cutaway, memory beat, or transition from road-trip movement to mountain stillness.
Historical context: The scene reflects mid-century leisure travel in the American West as seen through a private home-movie camera, with the car and landscape as the main evidence.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright status and any location or vehicle property concerns should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Colorado 8mm home movie, vintage mountain lake road trip, old car at alpine lake, and 1950s American travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Colorado or 1958 travel footage, then broader mountain lake and road-trip home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing a maroon older car near an alpine lake below rocky, snow-dusted mountains. — A maroon road-trip car sits near a quiet mountain lake in Colorado.

1958 Colorado mountain-lake view on 8mm film, with pale rock walls, snow remnants, and blue water in the foreground. — Snow-dusted rock slopes rise above the blue alpine lake.

Colorado 8mm home-movie frame from 1958 showing a still alpine lake beneath pale, rugged mountain walls. — The camera lingers on the lake and pale mountain basin.

1958 Colorado mountain landscape on 8mm film, with blue lake water below a rugged slope and a small white snowfield. — A final scenic frame holds on the lake below the rugged mountain ridge.

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