Summit County Colorado USA-1962: Riding Past A Beautiful Mountain Top Admiring

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

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Riding Past A Beautiful Mountain Top Admiring — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a scenic mountain road journey through Summit County, Colorado. The footage shows a classic light-colored sedan driving along a winding dirt path beside a rocky hillside covered in evergreen trees. A small red cabin appears briefly, and the camera pans across the rugged landscape under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds. The view shifts to a sweeping vista of a forested valley below, with a distant road snaking through the trees. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic frame borders of an old home movie, evoking a strong sense of mid-century Americana and nostalgic travel.

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: 123756658

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Suits requests for 1960s American mountain road-trip sequences in documentary, educational, or nostalgia productions needing authentic mid-century Western travel footage.
Period detail: The rounded light-green sedan visible in frame 0 may show a late-1940s to early-1950s American automobile still in family use by 1962, consistent with the stated date.
Home-movie behavior: Shot from a roadside stop or slow-moving vehicle, the camera records what a touring family would pause to capture: a parked car against a scenic mountain backdrop.
What appears in frame: Light-green rounded vintage sedan, small red cabin structure, winding dirt gravel road, rocky hillside, dense evergreen conifers, forested valley vista, distant road threading through trees, cumulus clouds over blue sky.
Film character: Natural 8mm grain, slight warm color shift, characteristic dark frame borders, and mild exposure variation typical of amateur daylight filming on color reversal stock.
Edit role: Functions as a scenic travel insert or geographic transition cutaway; the valley vista in the final frame works well as a breath beat between narration segments.
Historical context: Post-war automobile tourism to Colorado's mountain roads was a widespread family activity; a family sedan at a scenic pull-off reflects mid-century American road-trip culture.
Research note: No identifiable persons are visible; the red cabin structure may constitute private property and warrants verification; the vehicle's license plate should be checked at full resolution.
Research search match: 1960s Colorado mountain road trip, vintage American car Rocky Mountain highway, Summit County home movie, mid-century family travel footage, 8mm mountain scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from this reel or Summit County session; then with 1960s Colorado or Rocky Mountain travel footage; then with mid-century American road-trip home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

A rounded light-green mid-century sedan on a gravel pull-off in what appears to be Summit County, Colorado, circa 1962, with a red cabin and forested rocky slope. — Family sedan at a mountain road pull-off, Summit County, Colorado, c. 1962.

A mountain road through rocky terrain dense with conifers, likely Summit County, Colorado, circa 1962; red cabin visible at the road's edge. — Mountain road through rocky evergreen terrain, Summit County, Colorado, c. 1962.

A curving dirt road through a Rocky Mountain canyon with dense evergreen forest, consistent with Summit County, Colorado, circa 1962. — Winding mountain canyon road, Summit County, Colorado, c. 1962.

A sweeping high-angle view of a forested valley with a winding road and a red-roofed building below, consistent with Summit County, Colorado, circa 1962. — Forested valley vista with distant road and red-roofed structure, Summit County, Colorado, c. 1962.

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