Summit County Colorado USA-1962: Scenic Drive Highlighting A River Valley Drive

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

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Scenic Drive Highlighting A River Valley Drive — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a scenic drive through Summit County, Colorado. The camera moves steadily along a winding road, revealing a river flowing through a lush valley flanked by forested mountains. The footage shows natural light shifting across the landscape, with a mix of sunlit slopes and shaded areas, all framed by the characteristic grain and color palette of Super 8 film. A wooden fence lines the roadside, adding to the rural, nostalgic atmosphere of this classic American road trip.

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: 123757966

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: 1960s 8mm home-movie footage for productions needing a brief scenic road-trip view of a river valley in Summit County, Colorado.
Period detail: The visible clues are mainly the 8mm color film texture, car-window framing, roadside fence, and undeveloped mountain valley landscape consistent with the 1962 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a traveler filming from inside a moving car as the river, fence, trees, and mountain slopes pass by.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a winding river, forested hillsides, roadside fencing, trees, cloudy sky, sunlit dirt or grass, and dark car-window edges.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, dark frame edges, and shifting color give the footage a tactile 8mm home-movie character.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a short travel insert, landscape transition, road-trip cutaway, or memory beat between broader Colorado or mountain sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents a mid-century visitor perspective on a rural mountain river valley without showing people, vehicles, businesses, or named landmarks.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and landscape/property context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1960s Colorado 8mm scenic drive, Summit County river valley home movie, and vintage mountain road-trip footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Summit County material, then broader 1960s Colorado scenic travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Summit County, Colorado home-movie frame showing a river valley, wooded hillside, roadside fence, and dark car-window edges. — A river valley and forested mountain slope pass the car window during the scenic drive.

1962 Summit County, Colorado frame with a winding river, tree-covered slopes, roadside fence, and soft 8mm color exposure. — The road passes a bend in the river beneath wooded mountain slopes.

1962 Summit County, Colorado home-movie view of trees, a river bend, fence posts, hills, and dark interior car framing. — Trees and fence posts slide past as the river valley remains visible beyond the road.

1962 Summit County, Colorado frame showing sunlit roadside ground, fence rails, dense trees, river water, and mountain slope. — Sunlight catches the roadside fence and ground while trees obscure part of the river.

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