Summit County Colorado USA-1962: Scenic River Flowing Through Forested Mountain Valley

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

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Scenic River Flowing Through Forested Mountain Valley — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a scenic river flowing through a forested mountain valley in Summit County, Colorado. The footage, viewed from a moving vehicle, shows rushing water over rocks, lush green trees, and a dirt road with a wire fence running alongside. The image has a soft, grainy quality typical of Super 8 film, with natural lighting and a nostalgic, immersive feel. This archival clip evokes classic Americana and outdoor adventure from the early 1960s.

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: 123757687

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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1962 8mm Colorado mountain-river footage suited to documentary inserts, environmental context, travel memory sequences, or midcentury outdoor-life cutaways.
Period detail: The frames may show a dirt roadside, simple wire fence, and vehicle-shot mountain scenery consistent with early 1960s home-movie travel footage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a traveler filming from a moving vehicle while passing a forested river corridor in Summit County.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rushing river water, pale rocks, dense green trees, a dirt road edge, wire fence lines, steep banks, and dark in-camera frame borders.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, motion blur, uneven exposure, and black 8mm frame edges give the scan a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a brief scenic cutaway, road-trip transition, place-setting insert, or memory beat between Colorado travel scenes.
Historical context: The footage documents a roadside view of a mountain stream and forest landscape, reflecting recreational travel imagery without showing identifiable people or businesses.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in the provided frames, but copyright and any location-specific permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1962 8mm Colorado river, Summit County mountain valley home movie, vintage roadside forest stream, and midcentury scenic travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel road-trip shots, then Summit County or 1962 Colorado material, then broader mountain river and forest travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 8mm Summit County view of a river beside trees, road edge, and wire fence, blurred by vehicle motion. — A moving roadside view passes a forested riverbank and fence line.

Summit County mountain stream flows over pale rocks beneath dense trees in soft 8mm color footage. — Rushing water and rocks appear along a shaded forested stream.

Vehicle-shot 8mm view of a rocky river beside a wire fence and forested bank in Summit County. — Large pale rocks sit in the river as the camera passes the fenced roadside.

1962 Colorado home-movie frame showing rushing river water, roadside shoulder, fence lines, and forested banks. — The river runs beside a road and fence as the vehicle continues past.

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