Denver Colorado-1958: Insect Flies In And Out Of Image Of Beautiful Sky And Cliffs

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

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Insect Flies In And Out Of Image Of Beautiful Sky And Cliffs — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a striking desert landscape viewed through a dark frame. A towering red rock cliff dominates the right side, contrasting with a vibrant blue sky filled with fluffy white clouds. The scene includes a distant arid hillside and a few green trees at the base of the cliff. The footage exhibits natural film grain and slight color fading, characteristic of mid-century home movies. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of the American West, perfect for historical or nature-themed projects.

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: 123604756

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 home-movie landscape footage useful for documentary or educational sequences needing a brief American West sky-and-cliff cutaway.
Period detail: The visible frame offers few date-specific clues, but the color 8mm texture and supplied 1958 metadata place it in a mid-century home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The dark edge framing and static outdoor view suggest a visitor-shot moment of looking toward cliffs, clouds, and open terrain rather than a staged composition.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blue sky, white clouds, red rock cliff face, dark film-edge framing, scrubby hillside, and green trees near the cliff base.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm grain, saturated but softened color, slight exposure variation, and scanned film-edge shadows that give it clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short scenic insert, transition, memory beat, or establishing cutaway for travel, landscape, or mid-century home-movie material.
Historical context: The footage visually supports a 1950s leisure-travel view of Western scenery without showing people, vehicles, signage, or identifiable urban context.
Research note: No people, logos, or interiors are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any location or property implications before use.
Research search match: Searches such as 1958 8mm Colorado cliffs, vintage home movie desert landscape, red rock sky clouds, or mid-century Western travel footage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Denver or Colorado 1958 footage, and then broader 1950s Western landscape or travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 8mm Colorado landscape view with blue sky, white clouds, a red rock cliff at right, distant hillside, trees, and dark frame edges. — Blue sky and clouds framed by a red rock cliff and dark film borders.

1958 8mm Colorado frame showing a red rock cliff, bright clouds, blue sky, low scrub hillside, trees at the base, and dark scanned film edges. — A red rock cliff rises beside a bright blue sky with scattered clouds.

1958 8mm Colorado landscape view with scattered white clouds, blue sky, red rock cliff texture, scrub-covered slope, trees, and visible film-edge framing. — Scattered clouds drift above a scrubby hillside and red rock cliff face.

1958 8mm Colorado scenic frame with red rock cliff on the right, blue sky and clouds overhead, green trees below, distant hillside, and dark film-edge shadows. — The cliff edge and trees sit below a vivid sky with small white clouds.

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