Summit County Colorado USA-1962: Scenic View Of A Mountain In The Distance As

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

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Scenic View Of A Mountain In The Distance As — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a scenic mountain landscape from a moving vehicle. The view unfolds through a car window, with pine trees and forested slopes passing by in the foreground. A rugged mountain range rises in the distance under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, conveying a nostalgic sense of travel through Summit County, Colorado. This authentic archival clip offers a timeless glimpse of mid-century American nature and road trips.

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: 123756921

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 archival requests for 1960s American Rocky Mountain road travel, suitable as a landscape cutaway in documentary, educational, or nostalgic commercial productions.
Period detail: Film stock color saturation and grain structure are consistent with early-1960s 8mm home-movie stocks; no dated objects beyond the film characteristics themselves are visible.
Home-movie behavior: Shot through a car window during a road trip, this captures the spontaneous tourist impulse to film an impressive mountain panorama from a moving vehicle.
What appears in frame: Rocky mountain peaks, dense conifer forest, dry golden meadow, cumulus clouds, blue sky, vehicle window framing, forested slopes, and visible film grain across all four frames.
Film character: Warm color saturation, visible film grain, and motion blur from the moving vehicle give this footage an authentic early-1960s 8mm home-movie texture throughout.
Edit role: Works as a landscape cutaway or road-trip transition in documentary sequences about 1960s American West travel, Colorado mountain heritage, or mid-century family vacations.
Historical context: The car-window framing reflects mid-century American road-trip culture when families commonly documented scenic drives; Summit County was a popular Colorado mountain destination.
Research note: No identifiable people, faces, or brand marks are visible; the landscape raises no clearance concerns, but licensing terms should be confirmed with the rights holder before production use.
Research search match: Researchers may query '1960s Colorado mountain road trip,' 'vintage 8mm Rocky Mountain landscape,' or 'mid-century American West driving footage.'
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same Summit County reel; then with 1960s Colorado or Rocky Mountain travel footage; then with mid-century American road-trip or wilderness themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

8mm home-movie frame, 1962, Summit County, Colorado: pine trees in foreground, distant mountain peak, and golden meadow visible through a car window. — Through the car window: pine trees and a distant mountain peak, Summit County, Colorado, 1962.

8mm home-movie frame, 1962, Summit County, Colorado: mountain range, conifers, and orange-brown foliage captured from a moving vehicle. — Mountain range and pine forest seen from a moving car, Summit County, Colorado, 1962.

8mm home-movie frame, 1962, Summit County, Colorado: rocky mountain peak, dense subalpine forest, and building cumulus clouds. — Rocky peak and cumulus clouds above a subalpine pine forest, Summit County, Colorado, 1962.

8mm home-movie frame, 1962, Summit County, Colorado: mountain ridgeline, scattered clouds, and conifer trees in the foreground. — Mountain ridgeline under a partly cloudy sky, with pine trees in the foreground, Summit County, Colorado, 1962.

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