Colorado USA-1958: Large Granite Rock Formations with Trees in Mountains

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

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Large Granite Rock Formations with Trees in Mountains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic mountain landscape in Colorado. The footage features massive, weathered granite rock formations rising against a deep blue sky, with evergreen trees dotting the slopes. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, natural grain, and a distinctive color palette with purplish tones on the rock faces. The camera remains steady, offering a contemplative view of the rugged terrain, evoking a sense of quiet isolation and natural grandeur from mid-century America.

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: 123602613

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 8mm Colorado mountain landscape footage for documentary cutaways, nature inserts, regional travel context, or mid-century home-movie atmosphere.
Period detail: The clip may show a mid-century visitor view of rugged Colorado rock formations, with no visible roads, buildings, vehicles, clothing, or signage to date the scene beyond the supplied 1958 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The steady, observational framing suggests a traveler pausing to record an impressive natural formation rather than a staged or narrated scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pale granite rock faces, rounded boulders, evergreen trees, a saturated blue sky, shadowed crevices, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift toward blue and purple, and steady framing that preserve the tactile texture of home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet landscape insert, regional establishing cutaway, transition between travel scenes, or reflective memory beat.
Historical context: The footage documents how a private 1950s camera recorded mountain scenery as a scenic travel subject, without visible human activity or infrastructure in the frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any location or land-management permissions should be checked separately from likeness or brand concerns.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1958 Colorado 8mm mountain rocks, vintage home movie granite formations, mid-century Rocky Mountain landscape, and evergreen rock outcrop footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Colorado landscapes, then broader vintage 8mm mountain, forest, and rock-formation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing pale granite formations, dark evergreen trees, and a saturated blue mountain sky. — Granite rock faces and evergreens in a Colorado mountain landscape.

1958 Colorado home-movie frame with massive granite formations, tree silhouettes, and blue sky in soft 8mm color. — Pale rock formations tower above dark evergreen trees.

Vintage 1958 Colorado 8mm view of rounded granite outcrops, forested slopes, and purplish film color. — Rounded granite outcrops viewed from a steady home-movie camera.

1958 Colorado mountain landscape frame showing granite rock faces, conifers, and a deep blue sky on 8mm film. — Steady scenic view of granite formations and conifers.

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