Summit County Colorado USA-1962: Rural Landscape from Moving Car

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

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Rural Landscape from Moving Car — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a moving car view of the rural landscape in Summit County, Colorado. The footage shows passing farmland, scattered trees, and distant mountains under a cloudy sky, with the motion blur of the vehicle creating a nostalgic, first-person perspective. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and natural light evoke a classic mid-century Americana feel, offering authentic archival footage of the region's countryside.

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: 123757979

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 requests needing rural Colorado car-window landscape, farmland, trees, and distant mountain atmosphere for documentary or educational context.
Period detail: The 8mm color home-movie look and moving roadside viewpoint support the 1962 metadata, while visible details are limited to open fields, trees, clouds, and road-edge foreground blur.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged passenger perspective from a moving car, recording ordinary travel through open countryside rather than a composed scenic view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blurred roadside ground, open farm fields, clustered trees, distant low mountains, a cloudy sky, and a brief roadside sign shape.
Film character: Soft focus, motion blur, grain, faded color, and uneven exposure give the scan the texture of original 8mm home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short travel insert, rural transition, road-trip cutaway, or memory beat between Colorado or mid-century landscape sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually documents rural roadside scenery in Summit County, Colorado, with open land and tree lines under unsettled weather, without showing identifiable people or buildings.
Research note: No people, logos, or clear private property are visible, but copyright, location verification, and any property or landscape-specific claims should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Relevant search phrases include 1962 8mm Colorado countryside, Summit County car view, rural farmland trees mountains, and vintage home movie road travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with other 1962 Summit County or Colorado travel footage, and then with rural road, farmland, mountain, or Americana landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Summit County, Colorado car-window view with a blurred roadside sign, rough ground, trees, and cloudy sky. — A roadside sign passes in blur beside trees and open ground during the moving car view.

1962 Summit County, Colorado rural field with a small tree cluster, distant low mountains, and a heavy cloudy sky. — Open farmland and a tree cluster appear beyond the moving foreground, with mountains under low clouds.

1962 Summit County, Colorado car view across a blurred grassy foreground, pale field, tree cluster, and distant mountains. — The moving vehicle passes a broad field with trees and low mountains beneath a cloudy sky.

1962 Summit County, Colorado rural landscape with open field, roadside foreground blur, clustered trees, and distant mountains. — A tree cluster sits across open land as the car continues past the rural Colorado landscape.

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