Summit County Colorado USA-1962: A Building In A Green Valley With Mountains In The Distance

$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.

Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationSummit, Colorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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A Building In A Green Valley With Mountains In The Distance — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie clip from 1962 captures a scenic view from a moving vehicle, showing a green valley with buildings and distant mountains under a partly cloudy sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics, including noticeable grain, dust specks, and a soft focus, with a dark vignette border framing the image. The scene transitions from a blank, speckled frame to a wide landscape shot, evoking a sense of travel and nostalgia.

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: 123756422

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 1636 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: spring time in the rockies
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: colorado
Date: 1962 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: Summit, 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: Useful for 1960s Colorado travel, road-trip, or mountain-valley establishing footage in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The clip may show early-1960s visitor-shot scenery, with low buildings, open grassland, and distant mountains visible from a moving vehicle.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged roadside viewpoint, suggesting a traveler briefly filming landscape through a vehicle window or from the road.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blank leader-like frames, blue inspection markings, dark frame edges, a green valley, low buildings, clouds, and distant mountains.
Film character: The 8mm image carries heavy grain, dust, soft focus, exposure variation, and dark gate edges that identify it as physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel transition, scenic cutaway, reel texture insert, or memory beat before a Colorado mountain sequence.
Historical context: The view documents open valley land and modest roadside development in Summit County, Colorado, without identifying a specific town or landmark.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright and any property or location questions should still be reviewed by the buyer.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1962 8mm Colorado mountain valley footage, Summit County travel scenery, vintage road-trip landscape, and home-movie leader frames.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then with 1962 Summit County or Colorado mountain footage, then with broader U.S. road-trip landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Blank, speckled 8mm frame with dust, soft exposure, and dark gate edges from the 1962 home-movie clip. — Blank speckled film frame before the landscape appears.

Light gray, mostly blank 8mm frame with visible dust, scratches, and dark edge vignetting from the archival reel. — Speckled blank frame with dark film borders.

8mm frame showing blue curved markings on a pale background, with dust and dark gate edges visible. — Blue curved markings appear on a pale, dusty film frame.

1962 Summit County, Colorado view of a green valley with low buildings, cloudy sky, and mountains in the distance. — Valley landscape with low buildings and distant mountains.

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