Colorado USA-1958: Pocket Mouse Foraging on Rocky Ground

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

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Pocket Mouse Foraging on Rocky Ground — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a small rodent, likely a pocket mouse, foraging on dry, rocky terrain in Colorado. The animal scurries across the dusty ground, pausing to sniff and explore its arid surroundings. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and natural lighting, offering a candid glimpse of wildlife in a desert-like environment. This authentic archival clip evokes nostalgia and is ideal for documentaries, nature projects, or historical content.

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: 123598485

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 wildlife or arid-landscape requests needing a brief 8mm home-movie cutaway of a small rodent moving across bare ground.
Period detail: The visible clues are mainly the 8mm color film texture and simple outdoor wildlife subject, with the 1958 Colorado setting supported by clip metadata rather than landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds a close, observational view as the small rodent pauses and scurries, giving the footage an unstaged home-movie field-note quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small rodent, dusty soil, scattered pebbles, larger rocks, dry uneven terrain, soft shadows, and rounded 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The clip has coarse 8mm grain, muted warm color, slight softness, handheld framing, and exposure variation that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a wildlife insert, desert-ground cutaway, nature transition, or quiet observational beat within a midcentury Colorado sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents casual attention to small wildlife in a dry outdoor setting without visible people, buildings, vehicles, or identifiable public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but species identification appears uncertain and copyright clearance remains separate from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1958 Colorado 8mm rodent, vintage home movie small mouse, midcentury wildlife cutaway, and rocky dry ground animal footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Colorado material, then broader vintage wildlife or arid-terrain cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

Small rodent on dry, rocky Colorado ground in 1958 8mm home-movie footage, with pebbles and soft film grain visible. — A small rodent pauses among pebbles on dry ground.

Small rodent appears alert on dry Colorado terrain, framed by 1958 8mm film grain and rounded dark borders. — The rodent faces right on the rocky dirt surface.

A small rodent moves quickly across dry Colorado ground in a soft, motion-blurred 1958 8mm frame. — Motion blur shows the rodent scurrying over the dusty ground.

Small rodent pauses beside a pale rock on dry, pebbled Colorado ground in 1958 8mm home-movie footage. — The rodent pauses beside a pale rock on the arid ground.

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