Colorado USA-1958: Video Of A Pit In The Ground That Is Filled With Water

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

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Video Of A Pit In The Ground That Is Filled With Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a striking alpine lake nestled in a rocky basin. The water glows a deep, unnatural blue, contrasting with the surrounding gray stones and sparse vegetation. The footage, likely from Colorado, shows a static, high-angle view of the secluded pond, with subtle film grain and color shifts characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. This archival clip evokes a sense of quiet wilderness and mid-century exploration, perfect for historical documentaries, nature montages, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 123601364

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: 1958 Colorado 8mm home-movie footage helps answer archival requests for mid-century alpine landscape cutaways and remote mountain water features.
Period detail: The frames may show a 1950s visitor-shot view of a rocky alpine basin, with no visible roads, signs, buildings, clothing, vehicles, or other date-specific details.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries the unstaged value of a traveler pausing above a vivid blue mountain pond and holding a simple scenic view rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blue pond, rocky shoreline, gray talus, sparse ground cover, a pale foreground boulder, dark film edges, and slight frame-to-frame shifts.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows coarse grain, soft focus, cool color shift, gate edges, and uneven exposure that give the brief landscape view clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet insert, environmental cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition within a sequence about Colorado, mountain travel, or home movies.
Historical context: The view suggests mid-century recreational attention to mountain scenery, but the frames do not identify a specific lake, trail, park, or land status.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private interiors are visible, though copyright, location identification, and any property or access questions still require separate review.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1958 Colorado 8mm alpine lake, vintage home movie mountain pond, rocky basin blue water, and mid-century wilderness cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel footage, then other Colorado 1958 material, then broader 1950s home-movie landscapes, alpine lakes, rocky basins, and travel cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing a vivid blue alpine pond surrounded by gray rocks and sparse vegetation. — High-angle view of a blue pond set in a rocky mountain basin.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame with a static view of a deep blue pond edged by rocky terrain. — Blue water contrasts with the surrounding rocks and dry alpine ground.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing the same alpine pond from a high, slightly shifted home-movie viewpoint. — The camera holds on the pond, with rocks and a pale boulder framing the lower foreground.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame of a vivid blue mountain pond, rocky shoreline, and soft film texture. — Final held view of the blue pond inside a stony alpine basin.

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