Colorado USA-1958: A Rocky Hillside With A Dirt Road And Blue Cloudy Sky

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

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A Rocky Hillside With A Dirt Road And Blue Cloudy Sky — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a rugged, rocky hillside under a bright blue sky with scattered white clouds. A dirt road winds along the slope, suggesting a remote mountain drive. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color saturation, with a view framed by the camera's dark borders. The scene evokes a sense of quiet Americana and mid-century exploration, perfect for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or archival 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: 123601084

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 home-movie footage for productions needing a brief mountain-road landscape cutaway or regional travel insert.
Period detail: The scene may show mid-century recreational travel through a dry Colorado mountain area, with an unpaved road and rocky slope as the main period clues.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds on a passing roadside view from a casual traveler perspective, preserving an unstaged glimpse of terrain rather than a composed scenic overlook.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a rocky hillside, dirt road, dry earth, distant blue horizon, scattered white clouds, bright sky, film gate borders and soft motion blur.
Film character: The clip has 8mm color grain, saturated blues and browns, slight softness, gate edges and handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short travel transition, exterior cutaway, location-establishing insert or memory beat within a Colorado or road-trip sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents a dry mountain roadside landscape as seen by an amateur camera, useful for showing everyday travel views without visible people or vehicles.
Research note: No people, logos or obvious private property are visible, but copyright, location verification and broader property context should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Colorado 8mm mountain road, vintage rocky hillside home movie, blue sky dirt road footage and 1950s western landscape cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Colorado travel footage, then broader 1950s mountain-road and dry landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing a rocky slope, dry roadside ground and blue cloudy sky within dark film borders. — A rocky Colorado hillside and dirt road appear beneath a bright, cloud-streaked sky.

1958 Colorado travel footage frame with a rocky hillside, unpaved road edge, distant horizon and scattered white clouds. — The road skirts a rock-covered slope with a distant blue horizon at left.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing dry roadside terrain, loose rocks, a sloping hill and a bright sky with scattered clouds. — Loose rocks and dry ground fill the foreground as the slope rises toward the right.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame of a rocky mountain roadside, dirt track, dry slope and clouded blue sky framed by dark film edges. — A rocky roadside slope and dirt track continue beneath a blue sky with white clouds.

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