Colorado USA-1958: Blue Lake and Forested Hills with Distant Mountain Peak

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

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Blue Lake and Forested Hills with Distant Mountain Peak — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a serene landscape in Colorado. A calm blue lake reflects the surrounding evergreen forest, with a prominent mountain peak rising in the distance. The scene is framed by a roadside foreground and the characteristic grain and color saturation of Super 8 film, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American vacation. The camera remains steady, offering a peaceful view of nature's beauty.

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: 123602141

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: Supports requests for 1950s Colorado travel, mountain-lake scenery, and mid-century American vacation landscape footage for documentary or educational use.
Period detail: The visible scene may show a 1958 roadside vacation viewpoint, with no cars, buildings, signage, clothing, or other date-specific details visible in the frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged traveler’s pause at a scenic overlook, holding on the lake, evergreen hills, and distant mountain peak rather than presenting a formal landscape study.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blue lake, evergreen forest, low hills, a pointed distant mountain peak, roadside foreground, shoreline vegetation, sky, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The footage carries a mid-century 8mm look with soft focus, visible grain, slight color shifts, rounded frame corners, and steady home-movie framing.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, travel transition, nature cutaway, or reflective memory beat within a Colorado or American West sequence.
Historical context: The view places a 1950s home-movie camera in a leisure-travel landscape, emphasizing roadside access to lakes and mountain scenery without showing people or built landmarks.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or clear private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any land-use permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1958 8mm Colorado lake footage, vintage mountain landscape, evergreen forest hills, roadside scenic overlook, and home-movie travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Colorado 1958 travel footage, and then broader 1950s mountain, lake, forest, or roadside vacation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing a blue lake, evergreen-covered hills, and a distant pointed mountain peak beyond a roadside edge. — Lake, forested hills, and a distant mountain peak seen from a roadside viewpoint.

Colorado home-movie landscape with evergreen hills, calm blue water, roadside foreground, and a distant mountain peak under a pale sky. — Steady landscape view of a lake beneath evergreen hills and a distant peak.

Vintage 8mm Colorado frame with a lake in the middle ground, dark evergreen hills, foreground shrubs, and a pointed mountain peak in the distance. — Soft-focus home-movie view across roadside shrubs toward lake and mountain scenery.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing lake water, forested hills, a distant mountain peak, and a warm red color shift along the left side. — Mountain-lake landscape with visible 8mm color variation near the frame edge.

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