Colorado USA-1958: Mountain Lake Between Rocky Slopes

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

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Mountain Lake Between Rocky Slopes — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a stunning mountain landscape in Colorado. The footage features a vibrant, deep blue alpine lake nestled between rocky slopes and snow-dusted peaks, with a winding road cutting through rugged terrain. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century American nature. The camera moves steadily, revealing the vastness of the high-altitude scenery.

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: 123597218

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 8mm home-movie footage suited for documentary inserts about mountain travel, scenic road trips, alpine landscapes, or mid-century vacation memory.
Period detail: The frames may show a mid-century visitor view of high mountain terrain, with an unmarked narrow road and an alpine lake visible rather than date-specific objects.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on a lake view and then following a winding mountain road from a moving or handheld vantage point.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a deep blue alpine lake, rocky slopes, pale mountain peaks, a narrow mountain road, cliff faces, road edge stones, sky, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows saturated blues, soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a scenic insert, travel transition, geographic cutaway, or memory beat between Colorado vacation or mountain-road sequences.
Historical context: The footage documents recreational looking and travel through a rugged Colorado mountain landscape without visible people, vehicles, signage, or built structures in these frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but users should still verify copyright, location identification, and any property or access concerns for their use.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1950s Colorado 8mm mountain road, alpine lake home movie, vintage Rocky Mountain travel footage, and mid-century scenic vacation film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Colorado mountain footage, then broader vintage alpine lake and winding road travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing a saturated blue alpine lake, rocky foreground, and pale mountain slopes in soft home-movie focus. — Alpine lake and rocky mountain slopes viewed from a high-elevation landscape.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing a winding mountain road bordered by steep rock and a drop-off into open sky. — Winding road cut into rugged mountain terrain.

Colorado mountain road in a 1958 8mm frame, with a rocky cliff face, curved pavement, and soft motion blur from the camera. — Road bends around a rocky mountain outcrop.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing a soft, grainy view of a road rounding a rocky bend in high mountain terrain. — Mountain road rounding a bend beside steep rock.

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