Summit County Colorado USA-1962: A View Of A Farm From The Road And Road Signs

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

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A View Of A Farm From The Road And Road Signs — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a scenic view of a rural landscape in Summit County, Colorado. The footage shows a wide green field stretching toward a long, light-colored building with a red roof, set against distant mountains under a partly cloudy sky. The perspective appears to be from a moving vehicle, with the frame's dark borders suggesting a window view. The final frame reveals a classic roadside scene with a large directional signpost for highways 93, 119, and 66, pointing toward Boulder, Denver, and the toll road, alongside a Texaco gas station and a rest room sign. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and dust specks typical of Super 8 footage from the early 1960s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123756437

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 American road-trip documentaries, Colorado transportation history, or rural West montage sequences needing authentic period driving-past footage.
Period detail: Highway route markers for Colorado 93, 119, and 66, plus a Boulder-Denver Toll Road sign, date this to the early-to-mid 1960s before Colorado's Interstate network was complete; the Texaco station style is consistent with that era.
Home-movie behavior: Shot from inside a moving vehicle, this captures the spontaneous tourist habit of filming passing landmarks and signage through a car window during a Colorado road trip.
What appears in frame: Wide green meadow, low institutional building with tiled roof, Rocky Mountain foothills, 35 mph speed limit sign, Colorado highway route markers (93, 66, 119), Boulder-Denver Toll Road directional sign, Texaco service station, and a Rest Room roadside sign.
Film character: Natural 8mm grain and dust specks give the footage an organic period texture; a slight magenta color shift in the final frame is consistent with dye fading in early-1960s color reversal stock.
Edit role: Works as a road-trip establishing cutaway or landscape transition; the sign cluster in the final frame functions as a readable geography-setting insert for a Colorado-set sequence.
Historical context: The Boulder-Denver Toll Road reference and pre-Interstate Colorado highway numbering reflect the state's road network before federal highway expansion reshaped the region in the mid-1960s.
Research note: The Texaco brand logo is clearly legible in frame 3; editorial use may be covered under incidental-inclusion doctrine, but commercial productions should seek independent legal guidance; no identifiable persons are visible.
Research search match: Likely found via queries such as '1960s Colorado road trip,' 'vintage highway signs Colorado,' 'Summit County 1962,' 'Boulder Denver toll road,' or 'early 1960s American roadside.'
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from this same reel or Summit County shoot; then with 1960s Colorado landscape or highway footage; then with American road-trip or pre-Interstate driving montages.

Still Frames From This Clip

8mm home-movie frame circa 1962 showing a green field and low institutional building near Summit County, Colorado, with mountain foothills under a partly cloudy sky. — Green meadow and building complex near Colorado foothills, 1962.

8mm color home-movie frame circa 1962 continuing the driving-past view of a meadow and building near Summit County, Colorado, with mountain backdrop. — Roadside view of meadow and building, Colorado foothills, 1962.

8mm home-movie frame circa 1962: a 35 mph speed limit sign on a Colorado roadside with a low building complex and mountain foothills behind a green field. — 35 mph speed limit sign and meadow, Colorado roadside, 1962.

Colorado highway route signs 93, 66, 119 and Texaco station, circa 1962.

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