Colorado USA-1958: The Desert By A River

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

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The Desert By A River — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a rugged desert landscape in Colorado. The footage shows a winding dirt road cutting through arid terrain, with rocky hills and distant mountains under a bright blue sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, grainy texture, and a distinct color palette with faded purples and blues. The scene is devoid of people, emphasizing the vast, quiet solitude of the high desert. This archival clip offers authentic 1950s Americana footage for documentaries, nostalgic content, and historical projects.

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: 123600687

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: Useful for 1950s Colorado or American West productions needing quiet 8mm landscape inserts of arid terrain, dirt roads, and distant mountains.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century visitor-shot travel footage, with no vehicles or people visible and few date-specific clues beyond the 1958 reel metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a traveler pausing to record scenery from a roadside vantage point rather than staging a composed landscape study.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a winding dirt road, rocky foreground, pale desert flats, scattered boulders, distant ridgelines, blue sky, and a dark building-like silhouette in one frame.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, handheld framing, edge shadow, and blue-purple color shift give the scanned 8mm footage a distinct physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, road-trip transition, landscape cutaway, or reflective memory beat in a Western travel sequence.
Historical context: The footage presents a sparse high-desert view of Colorado as experienced through home-movie travel, emphasizing terrain and distance rather than civic or social activity.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright status and any location or property permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Colorado 8mm desert footage, vintage American West road landscape, arid mountain terrain, and home-movie travel scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Colorado travel footage, and then broader American West desert or roadside landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado home-movie frame showing a rough dirt road, rocky ground, distant hills, and a dark building-like silhouette. — A winding dirt road leads through rocky high-desert terrain toward a dark structure.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame of arid pale ground, scattered rocks, boulders, and blue-gray mountain ridges in the distance. — Scattered boulders sit on pale desert ground with ridges beyond.

1958 Colorado home-movie view across a rocky foreground toward pale arid flats, boulders, and distant mountain slopes. — A low roadside view looks across stony desert terrain toward distant hills.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing a rocky roadside foreground, pale desert rise, scattered boulders, and blue mountain ridges. — The desert foreground rises toward scattered rocks and distant blue ridgelines.

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