Summit County Colorado USA-1962: A Scenic Landscape With A Lake Road Hills And Meadows

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

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A Scenic Landscape With A Lake Road Hills And Meadows — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a scenic mountain landscape in Summit County, Colorado. The view, framed by the dark edges of a window or projector, shows a calm lake bordered by a road and wooden posts, with grassy meadows and forested hills rising under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century American nature and travel.

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: 123756946

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 West travel and nature documentary requests as a scenic landscape cutaway or period establishing shot of Colorado mountain terrain.
Period detail: Car-window framing and warm 8mm color saturation are consistent with mid-century amateur travel filming; no visible signage or dated objects to confirm the year independently.
Home-movie behavior: Framed through a car window, this is a classic tourist travel shot: the passing landscape recorded from the road rather than staged, preserving the unguarded quality of a mid-century road trip.
What appears in frame: Calm mountain lake, two-lane road with wooden fence posts, green alpine meadow, flat-topped mesa, conifer-forested ridgeline, large cumulus clouds, blue sky, and dark car-window vignette edges.
Film character: Warm, saturated 8mm color with visible grain and slight image softness gives this landscape a tactile mid-century quality typical of color reversal home movie film from this period.
Edit role: Works as an establishing shot or transitional cutaway in travel, nature, or Americana documentary sequences; the road-trip perspective suits memory-driven narration or scene-setting voice-over.
Historical context: Summit County, Colorado was an emerging recreational destination by the early 1960s; this roadside lake shot may reflect the growth of automobile tourism in the Rocky Mountain West.
Research note: No identifiable people, faces, or commercial signage visible; standard editorial copyright licensing applies; verify whether roadside infrastructure constitutes private property before use.
Research search match: Likely matched by queries such as '1960s Colorado mountain lake,' 'vintage Rocky Mountain travel footage,' 'mid-century American West road trip,' or '8mm Colorado landscape 1960s.'
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same reel or Summit County source; then with 1960s Colorado or Rocky Mountain travel footage; then with mid-century American road-trip sequences.

Still Frames From This Clip

8mm home movie through a car window: calm lake, roadside wooden fence posts, green meadow, and flat-topped mesa, Summit County Colorado, circa 1962. — Car-window view of a mountain lake and road, Summit County Colorado, c. 1962.

8mm travel shot through a car window: calm lake, roadside fence posts, alpine meadow, and mesa ridgeline under cumulus clouds, Summit County Colorado, circa 1962. — Mountain lake and mesa viewed from a moving vehicle, Summit County Colorado, c. 1962.

8mm road-trip shot through a car window: alpine lake, fence-post road edge, meadow, flat mesa, and a rocky outcrop to the right, Summit County Colorado, circa 1962. — Lake, mesa, and rocky outcrop from a moving car, Summit County Colorado, c. 1962.

Closing 8mm frame through a car window: lake, road, green meadow, flat mesa, and a rocky peak emerging at right, Summit County Colorado, circa 1962. — Mountain lake, mesa, and rocky peak from a passing car, Summit County Colorado, c. 1962.

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