Colorado USA-1958: Mountain Lake Framed by Rocky Slopes

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

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Mountain Lake Framed by Rocky Slopes — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic mountain vista from a high vantage point. The camera slowly pans across a rugged, arid landscape, revealing a dark, elongated lake nestled between rocky slopes. The foreground features large boulders framing the view, while the distant mountains stretch under a deep blue sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, warm color tones, and natural light, evoking a sense of quiet exploration and mid-century Americana. This archival clip offers authentic, unscripted scenery perfect for historical or nature-themed projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123599512

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: 1950s Colorado 8mm mountain-lake scenery for documentary inserts, regional history programs, travel retrospectives, or nature-based archival sequences.
Period detail: The frames show mid-century color home-movie landscape footage, with no visible people, vehicles, buildings, signage, or other date-specific objects beyond the 1958 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot vantage point from rocks above a valley, emphasizing the casual, observational framing of a family or traveler recording scenery.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark elongated lake or reservoir, rocky foreground boulders, tan mountain slopes, distant ridgelines, open sky, and heavy frame borders from the scan.
Film character: The 8mm image has pronounced grain, warm uneven color, slight softness, dense shadows, and contact-sheet frame edges that document the physical-film source.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a scenic cutaway, quiet transition, geographic establishing insert, or memory beat within a sequence about Colorado travel or mountain landscapes.
Historical context: The view reflects a mid-century leisure or travel record of Colorado mountain terrain, while the frames do not identify a specific landmark or named body of water.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property or land-use concerns should still be reviewed before licensing.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Colorado 8mm mountain vista, vintage home movie lake between mountains, rocky overlook landscape, and mid-century travel scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Colorado 1958 mountain footage, then broader 1950s home-movie landscapes and lake or reservoir views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing a dark elongated lake or reservoir below rocky foreground boulders and arid mountain slopes. — A dark body of water lies between rocky slopes, seen from a high boulder-framed overlook.

1958 Colorado home-movie frame with dark water set below rugged slopes, framed by large rocks and a visible film border. — The camera view holds on a dark lake or reservoir below rugged mountain terrain.

Colorado 1958 8mm landscape frame showing a shadowed body of water below dry mountain slopes from a high rocky viewpoint. — Foreground boulders frame the shadowed water and broad mountain slope beyond.

1958 Colorado home-movie still of a dark lake or reservoir between rocky slopes, with boulders in the foreground and distant hills beyond. — A wide rocky vista shows dark water enclosed by rugged mountain terrain.

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