Colorado USA-1958: Small Rodent Scurries Across Arid Landscape

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

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Small Rodent Scurries Across Arid Landscape — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a small rodent, likely a pocket gopher or ground squirrel, moving across a rocky, arid landscape in Colorado. The animal scurries over loose dirt and scattered stones before disappearing from view. The final frame shifts to a wide, hazy mountain vista with a bird flying overhead, suggesting a high-altitude desert environment. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and natural lighting, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic slice of mid-century Americana is ideal for documentaries, nature projects, or nostalgic 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: 123598661

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 1950s Colorado 8mm nature cutaway for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences needing small wildlife in an arid Western landscape.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century home-movie field footage, with no visible people, vehicles, structures, brands, or datable landmarks beyond the supplied 1958 Colorado metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged observer quality, with the camera tracking rough ground and then shifting toward a hazy mountain view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rocky dirt, scattered stones, a small dark rodent-like animal, blurred scrub or ground texture, pale desert slopes, distant mountains, and open sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, faded color, grain, gate edges, and handheld instability that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife insert, landscape cutaway, transitional beat from ground detail to vista, or memory fragment in a Western travel reel.
Historical context: The footage visually supports a high, dry Colorado landscape context without showing settlement, tourism infrastructure, or identifiable human activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but copyright, location confirmation, species identification, and any property considerations should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Colorado 8mm wildlife footage, small rodent on rocky desert ground, home movie mountain vista, and mid-century arid landscape cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1958 Colorado landscape footage, then broader 1950s Western wildlife or arid mountain travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Small rodent-like animal on rocky arid ground in Colorado, from supplied 1958 8mm home-movie metadata. — A small animal moves across loose dirt and stones.

Small rodent-like animal continues across stony Colorado ground in archival 1958 8mm footage. — The animal remains low against the rocky terrain.

Blurred handheld frame of dry ground texture, likely during a quick camera movement in the Colorado home movie. — A shaky close frame catches dry ground in motion blur.

Wide hazy mountain landscape in Colorado, supported by supplied 1958 8mm home-movie metadata. — The view opens to pale desert slopes and distant mountains.

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