Colorado USA-1958: Road Winding Through Rocky Desert

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

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Road Winding Through Rocky Desert — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage clip captures a winding paved road cutting through rocky desert terrain in Colorado. A small car moves along the circular route, its motion visible in the distance. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color shifts, and a slightly faded quality, evoking mid-century Americana. The scene is devoid of people, emphasizing the isolation of the landscape and the quiet journey of the vehicle.

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: 123599237

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: Supports 1950s Colorado travel, road-trip, or western landscape requests needing brief 8mm footage of a winding paved road through rocky desert terrain.
Period detail: The visible clues are limited to color 8mm texture, a mid-century home-movie viewpoint, and a distant small car on a paved curve; the 1958 Colorado date is supported by supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of a traveler filming a striking roadside curve from above rather than a staged scenic or automotive shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a paved looping road, rocky foreground, scrubby desert ground, a dark hillside edge, roadside stones, and a small distant vehicle.
Film character: The footage carries warm color shifts, soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, and slight exposure variation typical of scanned 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a short travel insert, route-establishing cutaway, transition between road scenes, or quiet memory beat for mid-century western travel.
Historical context: The scene shows automobile travel through an arid Colorado landscape, with the road and sparse surroundings emphasizing distance and roadside observation.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright status and any location or property permissions should still be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1958 Colorado 8mm road footage, winding desert road home movie, rocky western terrain, and distant car on paved curve.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Colorado travel footage, then broader 1950s road, desert, and western landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing a winding paved road through rocky desert ground, with stones and scrub visible around the curve. — A paved road bends through rocky desert terrain, seen from a slightly elevated roadside viewpoint.

1958 Colorado travel footage frame with a distant small car on a winding paved road amid rocky desert terrain. — A small vehicle appears on the curved road, surrounded by rocky open ground.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame looking over rocks toward a sweeping paved road curve in sparse desert terrain. — The road arcs through the frame below rocky foreground stones and sparse ground cover.

1958 Colorado home-movie frame of a paved road looping through rocky desert terrain, with no people or signage visible. — The final view holds on the winding road and scattered rocks across the arid landscape.

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