Summit County Colorado USA-1962: Road Side View While Traveling In The County

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

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Road Side View While Traveling In The County — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a scenic road trip through Summit County, Colorado. The footage shows a moving perspective from a vehicle, with lush green pine trees in the foreground and rolling mountain ranges under a partly cloudy sky. The classic Super 8 color palette features faded greens and blues, with natural film grain and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic 1960s Americana travel experience. The sequence transitions from dense forest to open meadows, offering a serene view of the Colorado wilderness.

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: 123756731

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: Fits archival requests for 1960s American road travel or Rocky Mountain landscape coverage in documentary and educational productions.
Period detail: Faded greens and blues, visible film grain, and the 8mm frame format are consistent with early 1960s consumer color film stock.
Home-movie behavior: Shot through a moving vehicle window, the framing captures the spontaneous traveler's gaze across the landscape rather than a composed scenic shot.
What appears in frame: Pine and conifer trees, rolling mountain ridgeline, open grassy meadow, cumulus clouds, blue sky, faded 8mm color palette, vehicle-window vantage, and motion blur in the final frame.
Film character: Visible grain, faded greens and blues, natural exposure variation across frames, and strong motion blur in the closing frame give the footage its handmade 8mm texture.
Edit role: Works as a travel cutaway, landscape transition, or memory-beat interstitial in documentaries about mid-century American road travel or Rocky Mountain tourism.
Historical context: Roadside mountain scenery likely captured during a leisure road trip, reflecting mid-century American car culture of touring western landscapes.
Research note: No people, faces, or identifiable private property appear visible in these frames; standard copyright due diligence for the original film owner still applies.
Research search match: 1960s Colorado mountain road trip 8mm film; Rocky Mountain landscape vintage home movie; American West travel scenery 1960s.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from this reel, then Summit County or Colorado mountain footage from the 1960s, then broader mid-century American road trip or western wilderness material.

Still Frames From This Clip

8mm home movie frame from 1962 showing conifer forest and rolling mountain ridge under cumulus clouds in Summit County, Colorado. — Forested mountain ridge through pine trees, Summit County, Colorado, 1962.

8mm home movie frame from 1962 showing pine trees, open grassland, and a mountain summit under scattered clouds in Colorado. — Pine trees and open meadow with mountain summit in background, Colorado, 1962.

8mm home movie frame from 1962 showing a prominent mountain peak, pine forest, and open meadow under summer cumulus clouds in Summit County, Colorado. — Mountain peak above pine forest and open meadow, Summit County, Colorado, 1962.

Motion-blurred 8mm frame from 1962 showing close pine branches and sky, reflecting vehicle movement through the Colorado mountain landscape. — Motion-blurred pine branches from a moving vehicle, Colorado, 1962.

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