Colorado USA-1958: A Car Drives Around A Tight Bend On A Scenic Mountain Road

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

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A Car Drives Around A Tight Bend On A Scenic Mountain Road — Clip Details

A red vintage car navigates a sharp bend on a winding mountain road in Colorado, captured on 8mm film in 1958. The footage shows the vehicle making a tight turn along a scenic, rocky mountain pass with expansive views of rugged peaks and valleys. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic 1950s road trip. The sequence transitions to wide shots of the mountainous landscape, highlighting the natural beauty of the high-altitude terrain. This authentic home movie footage is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects about mid-century American travel.

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: 123599039

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 U.S. travel, mountain-road, and family road-trip edits needing brief Colorado 8mm footage of a car on a high scenic pass.
Period detail: The red mid-century car, 8mm color stock, and metadata-supported 1958 date place the scene in a late-1950s American motoring context.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot feel, observing a car rounding a difficult curve before lingering on surrounding peaks and rocky terrain.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red car, curved mountain road, rocky shoulder, steep slopes, distant valleys, high peaks, and an 8mm contact-sheet frame edge.
Film character: The scan shows soft 8mm grain, magenta-blue color drift, slight blur, uneven exposure, and rounded frame edges typical of aged home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a road-trip insert, travel transition, mountain-pass cutaway, or brief memory beat between broader Colorado travel scenes.
Historical context: The clip visually suggests mid-century leisure travel by car through rugged Colorado mountain terrain without showing people, signage, or named landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in the supplied frames, but copyright, location identification, and vehicle design rights should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Colorado 8mm mountain road footage, vintage car on mountain pass, mid-century American road trip, and rocky scenic landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1958 Colorado travel footage, then broader vintage mountain-road and American road-trip material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A red vintage car rounds a tight curve on a rocky Colorado mountain road in metadata-supported 1958 8mm footage. — Red car negotiating a sharp mountain-road bend above rocky slopes.

A winding Colorado mountain road curves through pale rocky terrain, with distant peaks visible in 1958 home-movie footage. — Curving mountain road after the car has passed through the bend.

A wide mountain landscape in Colorado shows rocks in the foreground and layered ridges beyond, recorded on 8mm film in 1958. — Rocky foreground overlooking layered mountain ridges and valley terrain.

A rocky Colorado overlook faces distant ridges and a hazy valley in a soft, color-shifted 1958 8mm home-movie frame. — Mountain overlook with rocks in front and distant ridgelines beyond.

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