Denver Colorado-1958: Passing View Of Brown And Green Fields On A Clear Day

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

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Passing View Of Brown And Green Fields On A Clear Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a passing view of expansive brown and green fields from a moving vehicle in Denver, Colorado. The wide, flat landscape stretches under a dramatic, overcast sky with soft purple and gray tones. Utility poles line the horizon, and the footage shows natural film grain and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American road trip. The perspective suggests travel through rural or suburban outskirts, with a quiet, contemplative mood.

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: 123603880

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: Denver, 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 Denver-area travel, rural roadside, weather, or mid-century landscape inserts in documentary, museum, education, and editorial productions.
Period detail: The 8mm color frame texture, utility poles, open fields, and moving-vehicle viewpoint support a late-1950s home-movie travel context near Denver.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged passenger-window view, valued for its ordinary road-trip perspective rather than composed scenic coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include flat brown and green fields, a low horizon, utility poles, distant trees or buildings, overcast sky, window-edge framing, and motion blur.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, muted color, uneven exposure, gate-edge darkness, and slight handheld or vehicle vibration that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, weather cutaway, or quiet memory beat between family or road-trip scenes.
Historical context: The view suggests open land on Denver's outskirts in 1958, but the frames do not identify a specific road, neighborhood, landmark, or event.
Research note: No people, brands, or clear private property are visible, though copyright status, location identification, and incidental property questions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1958 Denver 8mm home movie, Colorado roadside fields, passing landscape from car, overcast sky, and mid-century travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other Denver 1958 material, then related Colorado road travel, fields, weather, and utility-pole landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Denver-area 8mm view of open brown fields and utility poles seen from a moving vehicle under a gray-blue sky. — Passenger-window view across flat fields with utility poles and heavy sky.

Denver-area 1958 roadside landscape with open fields, distant utility poles, and a muted cloudy sky filmed from a moving vehicle. — Open field and utility poles pass beneath a broad overcast sky.

1958 Denver-area passing view of flat fields with a distant tree line or buildings under layered gray clouds. — Low horizon of fields and distant structures under a layered sky.

Denver-area 1958 8mm roadside shot showing a broad field, low horizon, power line, and subdued overcast sky. — Power line crosses a quiet field and distant horizon beneath cloudy light.

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