Denver Colorado-1958: Red Rock Formations and Evergreen Trees

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

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Red Rock Formations and Evergreen Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched landscape of red rock formations and scattered evergreen trees in Denver, Colorado. The footage, framed by dark borders suggesting a window view, shows a rugged hillside under a bright blue sky with soft white clouds. The natural scene features layered sandstone cliffs and rocky outcrops, with green shrubs dotting the slopes. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American outdoor scene. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content about 1950s Colorado.

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: 123604501

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: 1950s 8mm Colorado landscape footage for documentary inserts, environmental history context, travel memory scenes, or mid-century outdoor cutaways.
Period detail: The clip may show a mid-century visitor view of red sandstone outcrops, evergreen trees, shrubs, bright sky, and film-gate borders from an 8mm home movie.
Home-movie behavior: The framing has the feel of an amateur travel or sightseeing shot, holding briefly on a rugged hillside rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include red rock slabs, sandstone ledges, evergreen trees, scrubby plants, a pale blue sky, soft clouds, and dark film borders.
Film character: The footage carries visible 8mm grain, saturated color, soft focus, uneven exposure, and slight contact-print softness typical of home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a landscape insert, place-setting cutaway, transition between travel scenes, or quiet memory beat.
Historical context: The view documents how a 1958 home-movie camera recorded Colorado outdoor scenery, with attention on geology, sky, and roadside or trail-side vegetation.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but users should still assess copyright, location identification, and any site-specific property concerns.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Denver Colorado 8mm landscape, red rock formation home movie, vintage Colorado nature footage, and mid-century sandstone scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Denver or 1958 Colorado footage, then broader vintage western landscape and environmental preservation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Denver-area 8mm frame showing red sandstone outcrops, evergreen trees, shrubs, clouds, and dark film-gate edges. — Red rock outcrops and evergreen trees on a sunlit Colorado hillside.

1958 Denver-area home-movie frame of layered red rocks and scattered evergreens under a bright clouded sky. — Layered rock formations and trees fill the hillside beneath a bright sky.

1958 Denver-area 8mm frame showing a red rock formation, a tall evergreen, shrubs, and soft clouds above the slope. — A tall evergreen stands among red rock formations and hillside vegetation.

1958 Denver-area frame with red sandstone ledges, dark evergreens, scrub vegetation, and visible 8mm frame edges. — Sandstone ledges, evergreens, and brush appear through dark home-movie frame borders.

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