Summit County Colorado USA-1962: Driving Along A Steep Cliff Wondering What Awaits

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

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Driving Along A Steep Cliff Wondering What Awaits — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a scenic drive through Summit County, Colorado. The camera looks out from a moving vehicle, revealing a steep, rocky cliffside bordered by a white guardrail. Lush green pine trees dominate the landscape under a bright, partly cloudy sky. The footage shows the car navigating a winding mountain road, with the natural beauty of the Colorado wilderness unfolding in a classic retro style. This authentic 8mm home movie offers nostalgic, archival footage ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or historical storytelling.

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: 123756712

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: Serves 1960s American road-trip and mountain-West documentary requests; useful as a period driving POV insert or transition in historical travel or environmental storytelling.
Period detail: White metal post-and-rail highway guardrail style and saturated 8mm color palette are consistent with early-1960s US mountain road infrastructure; no dateable signage is visible.
Home-movie behavior: Camera appears hand-held or loosely window-mounted, capturing an unscripted passenger's spontaneous POV of passing mountain scenery with no apparent staging.
What appears in frame: Winding mountain road, white metal guardrail, dense pine forest, rocky cut slope, partly cloudy sky with cumulus clouds, and characteristic 8mm frame vignetting appear across all four frames.
Film character: Heavy black oval vignetting at the frame corners, warm saturated color palette, visible grain in sky regions, and mild overexposure in bright cloud areas give the footage authentic 1960s 8mm texture.
Edit role: Works as a POV driving cutaway, road-trip transition beat, or nostalgic insert in documentary or narrative projects set in the mid-century American mountain West.
Historical context: Guardrail design and passenger-window filming reflect mid-century American leisure road-trip culture; no specific landmarks or infrastructure can be independently verified from these frames alone.
Research note: No identifiable persons, faces, or license plates observed; copyright status of the original home movie should be confirmed with the rights holder before broadcast or commercial use.
Research search match: Researchers may search for 1960s Colorado mountain driving, vintage Rocky Mountain highway POV, 8mm road-trip nature footage, or mid-century American mountain travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same apparent Summit County reel; then with 1960s Rocky Mountain road-trip footage; then with mid-century American highway or nature-drive material.

Still Frames From This Clip

8mm home movie frame from what appears to be Summit County, Colorado, circa 1962, showing a steep wooded slope viewed from a moving vehicle window. — Rocky pine-covered slope viewed from vehicle window — Summit County, Colorado, circa 1962.

8mm home movie circa 1962 of a winding mountain road with white metal guardrail and pine forest, consistent with a Colorado Rocky Mountain highway. — Winding mountain road with white guardrail and pine forest — Summit County, Colorado, circa 1962.

8mm home movie circa 1962 of a mountain road with white guardrail, pine trees, and cumulus clouds, likely in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. — Mountain highway with white guardrail under cumulus clouds — Summit County, Colorado, circa 1962.

8mm home movie circa 1962 of a mountain road lined with pine trees and a white guardrail under a partly cloudy sky, consistent with the Colorado Rocky Mountains. — Pine-lined mountain road with white guardrail and partly cloudy sky — Summit County, Colorado, circa 1962.

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