Summit County Colorado USA-1962: View Of Mountain Silhouettes And Setting Sun At Dusk

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

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View Of Mountain Silhouettes And Setting Sun At Dusk — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a serene mountain silhouette against a pale, overcast sky at dusk. The dark, jagged ridge of a Colorado mountain range dominates the frame, with faint tree outlines visible along the ridgeline. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and natural film imperfections, offering a nostalgic glimpse of Summit County's rugged landscape. The camera remains steady, emphasizing the quiet stillness of the evening.

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: 123757870

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: Useful for 1960s archival productions needing a quiet Colorado mountain dusk insert, landscape transition, or home-movie cutaway without visible people.
Period detail: The visible period clues come mainly from the 8mm home-movie scan, soft exposure, grain, rounded frame edges, and metadata placing the footage in Summit County, Colorado in 1962.
Home-movie behavior: The clip reflects an unstaged traveler or family-film perspective, holding on a distant ridge and fading evening sky rather than documenting a formal event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark jagged mountain ridge, pale overcast dusk sky, small tree silhouettes, rounded film-frame edges, heavy shadow, and contact-print borders.
Film character: The footage has a physical 8mm character with soft focus, muted color, visible grain, uneven exposure, frame-edge vignetting, and minor scan or film wear.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, reflective transition, landscape cutaway, or memory beat between more specific Colorado travel scenes.
Historical context: The scene provides visual context for midcentury amateur travel filming in the Rocky Mountains, with attention on natural scenery rather than people or development.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still assess copyright status and any location-specific use concerns separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1962 8mm Colorado mountain dusk footage, Summit County ridge silhouette, vintage home-movie landscape, and Rocky Mountain sunset cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Summit County Colorado footage, then broader 1960s mountain, dusk, and travel-home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Summit County, Colorado 8mm frame showing a shadowed mountain ridge and faint tree shapes against a pale evening sky. — A jagged mountain ridgeline falls into silhouette under a muted dusk sky.

1962 Colorado home-movie frame with a dark mountain ridge sloping upward below a washed, overcast dusk sky. — The ridge line climbs across the frame, with a small tree visible near the horizon.

Summit County, Colorado 8mm still from 1962 showing a low dark ridge, sparse tree silhouettes, and soft dusk exposure. — A low ridge and scattered trees sit in silhouette beneath the evening sky.

1962 Colorado 8mm frame showing a dark rocky hillside and tree silhouettes beneath a muted dusk sky. — A rocky hillside and faint trees are silhouetted at the edge of the fading light.

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