Colorado USA-1958: Driving Down The Road With Views Of Large Green Trees

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

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Driving Down The Road With Views Of Large Green Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a scenic drive through a forested mountain road in Colorado. The camera moves forward along a winding dirt path, flanked by tall evergreen trees and a sun-drenched hillside under a clear blue sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, vibrant but slightly faded colors, and natural shadows, evoking a nostalgic 1950s road trip. This authentic archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling.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: 123602644

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Colorado home-movie road footage for productions needing a brief scenic driving insert, mountain travel cutaway, or midcentury vacation-memory beat.
Period detail: The unpaved mountain road, open hillside, evergreen forest, and saturated 8mm color may show a midcentury rural Colorado driving view without identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged passenger-perspective feel, watching the road curve ahead as the vehicle moves through trees and sunlit slopes.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dirt road, steep cut hillside, evergreen trees, blue sky, roadside brush, shadows across the track, and 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The footage has 8mm grain, soft focus, strong daylight contrast, slight color fading, and gate-edge framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel transition, establishing cutaway, road-trip insert, or reflective memory beat between broader Colorado or vacation scenes.
Historical context: The scene documents leisure or travel movement through a forested mountain road, with the camera focused on landscape rather than people or built structures.
Research note: No people, brands, or readable signs are visible, but copyright status and any land or roadway permissions should still be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Colorado 8mm road drive, 1950s mountain forest home movie, vintage dirt road travel footage, and evergreen road cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel travel footage, then other 1958 Colorado material, then broader 1950s mountain road or forest vacation clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing a dirt road curving past a sunlit hillside and tall evergreens. — A forested dirt road curves along a hillside in bright daylight.

Passenger-view 1958 Colorado frame of a winding dirt road bordered by evergreens and a sunlit slope. — The road bends ahead through evergreen trees and hillside shadows.

8mm Colorado road view from 1958, looking along a pale dirt track through dense green trees. — A pale dirt track continues through the forested mountain landscape.

Final 1958 Colorado frame showing the dirt road stretching into evergreen woods beneath clear sky. — The road extends into trees with deep shadows in the foreground.

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