Colorado USA-1958: A Car Traveling Down an Isolated Road with High Mountain Peaks

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

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A Car Traveling Down an Isolated Road with High Mountain... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a quiet, isolated dirt road winding through a rural landscape in Colorado. A lone vehicle travels down the dusty path, flanked by grassy fields and scattered trees, with majestic mountain peaks rising in the distance under a clear sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, subtle color shifts, and a nostalgic, sun-drenched quality, evoking mid-century Americana and the spirit of road travel. This archival clip offers authentic, unscripted footage ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123602824

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 rural mountain approach, travel insert, or mid-century landscape cutaway.
Period detail: The unpaved rural road, open fields, distant utility poles, and soft 8mm color may show mid-century leisure travel in a sparsely developed mountain setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged traveler’s viewpoint from a moving car, recording the road ahead rather than a composed scenic postcard.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dirt road, grassy fields, dark tree line, distant mountain peaks, a small rural structure, utility poles, and open sky.
Film character: The scan shows 8mm grain, slight softness, color shift, gate edges, and exposure variation that preserve the physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel insert, road-trip transition, geographic establishing shot, or quiet memory beat between broader Colorado scenes.
Historical context: The scene places automobile travel within a rural Colorado mountain landscape, with open land and limited roadside development visible in frame.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property concerns should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Colorado 8mm mountain road, vintage home movie rural road, and mid-century car travel landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1958 Colorado scenes, then broader rural road travel or mountain landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing a rural dirt road, grassy fields, tree line, and hazy mountain peaks in the distance. — A quiet rural road runs toward distant Colorado mountain peaks.

1958 Colorado home-movie frame with an isolated road, fields, utility poles, a small distant structure, and mountain peaks beyond. — The road continues past open fields toward a small rural structure below the mountains.

1958 Colorado 8mm frame showing a sunlit rural road, grassy shoulders, distant trees, and mountain peaks with warm color shift. — Sunlight and film color shift tint the roadside view toward distant peaks.

1958 Colorado home-movie frame showing a quiet road through green fields, with a dark tree line and mountain range beyond. — A rural road curves through open fields with the mountain range filling the horizon.

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