Summit County Colorado USA-1962: Horizontal Fly By Of A Forest

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

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Horizontal Fly By Of A Forest — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a smooth horizontal fly-by of a dense forest in Summit County, Colorado. The camera glides past rocky slopes and evergreen trees, revealing lush green foliage and rugged mountain terrain under a bright sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural motion blur, offering authentic archival footage of the Colorado wilderness. This nostalgic clip evokes mid-century Americana and is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or vintage-themed content.

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: 123756590

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Serves 1960s American West documentary requests needing unposed wilderness scenery — B-roll for environmental history, road-trip narratives, or Colorado heritage productions.
Period detail: 8mm color stock and soft vignetting are consistent with early-1960s amateur film, with colour saturation and slight fading typical of that era.
Home-movie behavior: The panning motion suggests footage shot from a moving vehicle or handheld sweep, capturing scenery as a traveller would rather than a staged nature shoot.
What appears in frame: Dense evergreen and deciduous trees, exposed rocky outcroppings, steep wooded slope, pale overcast sky with bright patches, lush green summer foliage, and natural shadow in the valley below.
Film character: Visible 8mm grain, rounded frame vignetting, mild colour fade toward green-yellow, and motion blur from the horizontal pan give the footage unmistakable mid-century home-movie texture.
Edit role: Works as a landscape cutaway or transition insert between interview segments in wilderness documentaries, or as an establishing mood beat in personal-history or road-trip narratives.
Historical context: Summit County, Colorado was a popular summer destination for mid-century American families, and this type of scenery footage often appears in home reels from Rocky Mountain road trips of the era.
Research note: No identifiable people, logos, or man-made structures are visible; standard copyright clearance applies to the scan, but provenance of the original reel should be confirmed by the rights holder.
Research search match: 1960s Colorado mountain forest 8mm, Rocky Mountain wilderness vintage home movie, mid-century American West nature footage, Summit County Colorado archival film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same reel or Summit County location; then with 1960s Colorado/Rocky Mountain scenery footage; then with mid-century American road-trip or wilderness material.

Still Frames From This Clip

8mm frame circa 1962 showing a steep, boulder-strewn slope covered in evergreen trees in what is described as Summit County, Colorado. — Rocky slope and evergreen forest, Summit County Colorado, 1962.

8mm home-movie frame circa 1962 showing a dense mixed forest canopy with rocky ground in Summit County, Colorado. — Dense mixed forest canopy, Summit County Colorado, 1962.

8mm frame circa 1962 showing conifer treetops in horizontal pan with pale sky and rocky cliffs in Summit County, Colorado. — Conifer treetops and rocky outcrop, Summit County Colorado, 1962.

8mm home-movie frame circa 1962 showing a steep rocky canyon wall above a conifer forest, consistent with Summit County, Colorado terrain. — Rocky canyon wall above conifers, Summit County Colorado, 1962.

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