Colorado USA-1958: View Of Blue Lake And Green Trees On A Bright Sunny Day

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

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View Of Blue Lake And Green Trees On A Bright Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched rural landscape in Colorado. The footage begins with a winding dirt road flanked by dense pine trees under a bright blue sky, then transitions to a flowing river with vibrant blue water and rocky banks. A small cabin is visible on the riverbank, surrounded by lush greenery. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking a nostalgic 1950s Americana feel. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects about mid-century American life and nature.

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: 123602669

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: Useful for 1950s Colorado nature, rural-road, and mountain-waterway requests needing brief archival landscape inserts or documentary cutaways.
Period detail: The rural dirt road, simple riverside cabin, saturated color, and 8mm home-movie handling may show a mid-century leisure or travel view of Colorado scenery.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the unstaged feel of a traveler pausing to record a road through pines and a scenic river bend from an elevated roadside vantage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pale dirt road, pine-covered slopes, bright sky, blue river water, rocky banks, grassy edges, a small cabin, and distant fencing or utility lines.
Film character: The scan shows dense 8mm grain, strong blue-green color saturation, slight softness, gate edges, and handheld framing that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, route transition, scenic cutaway, or memory beat for mid-century Colorado travel and outdoor recreation.
Historical context: The clip reflects a home-movie view of rural Colorado scenery, emphasizing road access, pine forest, and water landscape rather than a named landmark or event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or music are indicated, but the riverside structure and exact location are not identified, so copyright and property-context review remain separate.
Research search match: Searches such as 1958 Colorado 8mm river, vintage mountain road home movie, mid-century pine forest travel footage, and rural Colorado cabin river may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Colorado landscapes, then broader vintage 8mm mountain roads, rivers, forests, and travel cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing a sunlit dirt road bending through dense pine trees and grassy roadside banks. — A winding dirt road cuts through a pine-covered rural landscape in bright daylight.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame with a pale rural road curving past pine forest, grasses, and a cut earthen bank. — The road continues around a bend with pines and rough roadside grading visible.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing a vivid blue river, rocky shallows, green banks, and a small riverside cabin in the distance. — A river bends through a green valley with rocks, trees, and a small cabin on the far bank.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame looking over a blue river bend with rocky shallows, grassy banks, pine trees, and a small cabin beyond. — The scenic river view widens, showing the bend, rocky bar, surrounding greenery, and cabin.

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