Colorado USA-1958: Person Crouching By Lake In Vintage Home Movie

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

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Person Crouching By Lake In Vintage Home Movie — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside scene in Colorado. The footage opens on a wide view of a calm lake surrounded by dense pine forests and a distant mountain peak under a clear sky. A paved road runs along the foreground. The camera then focuses on a person in light-colored clothing crouching at the water's edge, seemingly engaged in an activity like fishing or examining something in the shallows. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slight color fading, and a soft, nostalgic quality characteristic of mid-century home movies.

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: 123602162

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 home-movie requests needing a quiet lakeside insert, outdoor recreation cutaway, or mid-century travel memory beat.
Period detail: The clip may show a paved lakeside road, informal shoreline access, and casual light clothing consistent with a 1958 vacation home-movie setting.
Home-movie behavior: The footage preserves an unstaged visitor perspective as the camera shifts from scenery to a person crouching quietly near the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a calm lake, pine-covered hills, a distant mountain peak, roadside foreground, shoreline grasses, and a crouching person by the water.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, gate edges, and handheld framing that read as authentic mid-century home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief scenic insert, transition into outdoor recreation, or reflective cutaway within a family travel or regional archive sequence.
Historical context: The scene suggests leisure travel or lakeside recreation in Colorado without identifying the specific lake, person, or activity from the visible frames alone.
Research note: A person is visible at a distance, so copyright, likeness, location, and contextual use should be reviewed separately before publication.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1958 Colorado lake home movie, vintage 8mm mountain lake, mid-century lakeside recreation, and person by water archival footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Colorado material, then broader vintage lake, road-trip, and outdoor recreation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm view of a lake bordered by pine forest, with a distant mountain peak and road in the foreground. — Wide lakeside view with forested hills and a distant mountain peak beyond the road.

A distant person in light clothing crouches at the edge of a Colorado lake in this 1958 home-movie frame. — Person crouching near the shoreline beside a calm lake.

Distant 1958 Colorado lakeside frame showing a person crouched near reeds along the water's edge. — Crouching figure remains near the waterline with reeds and lake behind.

1958 Colorado home-movie frame of a person crouched by a lake shore, with visible film color shift and light leak. — Lakeshore figure with grasses and a warm light leak across the 8mm frame.

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