Colorado USA-1958: Man Sitting on Cliff with Cup

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

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Man Sitting on Cliff with Cup — Clip Details

A man in a light-colored shirt and trousers sits atop a rocky cliff in Colorado, 1958, holding a cup. The 8mm film captures the rugged mountain landscape under a vibrant purple-blue sky, with distant peaks visible. The footage shows natural film grain and color shifts typical of vintage Super 8 home movies. The man appears to be resting, gazing toward the camera, with a shadow cast across the rocks. This authentic 1950s home movie offers a nostalgic glimpse of outdoor adventure and personal memory.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123599398

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 travel, mountain recreation, and personal outdoor-adventure sequences needing authentic 8mm home-movie material.
Period detail: The man's collared shirt, trousers, dress shoes, metal cup, and the saturated 8mm color palette support a late-1950s home-movie reading.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged rest moment, with the seated man acknowledging the camera while perched on exposed rock above a mountain view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a seated adult man, light shirt, trousers, cup, rocky cliff edge, distant peaks, deep shadow, and purple-blue sky.
Film character: The footage has visible grain, soft focus, color drift, high contrast, and contact-print framing that give the scan clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a mountain-trip insert, outdoor memory beat, or quiet cutaway between broader Colorado landscape shots.
Historical context: The scene reflects midcentury personal travel or hiking documentation in the Rocky Mountain region without identifying a specific landmark.
Research note: An adult face is visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or private property are visible, and copyright status is separate from release status.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Colorado 8mm home movie, man on cliff, vintage mountain travel footage, and midcentury outdoor recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel mountain footage, then Colorado 1958 travel material, then broader 1950s hiking and scenic overlook clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Adult man in Colorado, 1958, seated on rock with a cup, distant mountains, and purple-blue sky behind him. — A man rests on a rocky overlook with distant mountain peaks behind him.

The seated man remains on the Colorado cliff edge, holding a cup against a distant mountain backdrop. — The man sits near the cliff edge, partly shaded, with mountains in the distance.

Colorado mountain overlook detail with rocks, open ground, and a large shadow crossing the frame. — A dark shadow falls across rocks and open mountain terrain.

The final frame shows boulders and a broad shadow across a Colorado mountain overlook in 1958 home-movie color. — Boulders and a broad shadow mark the rocky overlook at the end of the clip.

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