Colorado USA-1958: Mountain Road Through Valley Full Of Rocks And Debris

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

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Mountain Road Through Valley Full Of Rocks And Debris — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a winding mountain road cutting through a rugged valley in Colorado. The footage shows a rocky, barren landscape with scattered boulders and sparse vegetation under a bright blue sky. A small white vehicle travels along the dirt path, emphasizing the remote, natural setting. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a soft focus, evoking a nostalgic 1950s road trip aesthetic. The sequence offers authentic archival footage of the American West, ideal for documentaries, historical content, or retro-themed projects.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: 123601276

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 home-movie footage for productions needing a brief mountain-road or alpine-valley travel insert.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century recreational travel through a rocky Colorado mountain landscape, with a small light vehicle visible in the opening frame.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged roadside-travel perspective, watching terrain, road, and lake-like water from a handheld family-camera viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a mountain road, rocky slopes, scattered boulders, sparse vegetation, blue sky, distant peaks, and dark alpine water.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, saturated blue color, uneven exposure, and slight handheld instability as part of its archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short travel insert, landscape transition, road-trip cutaway, or memory beat between broader Colorado or mountain sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents leisure travel through rugged American West terrain without visible people, signage, buildings, or identifiable landmarks in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in these frames, but users should still review copyright, location identification, and project-specific rights needs.
Research search match: Search matches include 1958 Colorado 8mm mountain road footage, vintage alpine valley home movie, rocky lake trail, and mid-century western travel landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Colorado 1958 travel footage, then similar 1950s mountain roads, lakes, and rocky valley landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing a rocky mountain valley, winding road, distant peaks, and a small light-colored vehicle. — A road curves through a rocky Colorado mountain valley under bright blue sky.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing boulders, gravelly ground, sparse vegetation, and dark alpine water in a mountain basin. — Boulders and loose rock frame a dark alpine lake or pond in the mountain terrain.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame of a rocky mountain basin, with pale boulders, loose debris, and dark water in the background. — The camera looks across loose rocks and boulders toward dark water in a rugged basin.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing loose rock, large boulders, sparse vegetation, and dark alpine water in rugged terrain. — Loose rocks and boulders fill the foreground beside dark alpine water.

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