Colorado USA-1958: Mountain Landscape Transitioning to Night Scene

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

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Mountain Landscape Transitioning to Night Scene — Clip Details

COLORADO USA-1958: A sweeping 8mm film view captures a vast, rugged mountain landscape under a hazy sky, with snow-dusted peaks stretching into the distance. The scene transitions to a dark, rocky terrain where an unidentified individual stands near a vehicle, possibly a vintage truck, under a deep purple night sky. The footage, shot on 8mm film, shows natural grain and color shifts typical of home movies from the late 1950s, evoking a sense of exploration and solitude in the American West.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123600090

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: 1950s Colorado home-movie footage for productions needing rugged mountain views and a brief dusk or night mountain-camp cutaway.
Period detail: The clip may show a late-1950s visitor-shot mountain overlook, with barren rocky ground, distant snow patches, and dark vehicle-like equipment in the later frames.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the direct, unstaged feel of a traveler panning from a distant mountain panorama to a darker roadside or rocky overlook scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include hazy mountain ridges, snow-dusted peaks, rocky foreground, dark terrain, a deep blue-purple sky, and a shadowed vehicle-like shape.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, color drift, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that preserve the texture of original home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a mountain establishing insert, a transition from daylight travel to nightfall, or a brief memory beat of Western road travel.
Historical context: The visuals place a home-movie camera in a high, open Colorado landscape, emphasizing recreational travel and scenic observation rather than a documented event.
Research note: No faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any vehicle or property context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1950s Colorado 8mm mountain landscape, Rocky Mountain home movie, barren overlook, snow patches, and night roadside scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1958 Colorado mountain footage, then with broader home-movie travel and Western landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing distant hazy mountain ridges, pale sky, and rocky high-country foreground with snow patches. — A broad mountain panorama stretches across a hazy sky with patches of snow on the rocky slopes.

1958 Colorado home-movie frame of layered mountain ridges and barren rocky terrain, softly exposed on 8mm film. — Layered ridges and rocky slopes fill the frame under a pale, hazy sky.

Dark 1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing rocky foreground, shadowed vehicle-like equipment, and a deep blue-purple sky. — The scene shifts to a much darker rocky overlook with a shadowed vehicle-like form in the foreground.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame with dark rocky terrain, a shadowed vehicle-like shape, and low-light color shifts at dusk or night. — A low-light frame shows rocky terrain and a dark vehicle-like shape against a saturated blue-purple sky.

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