Summit County Colorado USA-1962: Moving Scene Of Dark Weather In The Distance

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

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Moving Scene Of Dark Weather In The Distance — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic, overcast landscape in Summit County, Colorado. Rolling green fields stretch beneath a heavy, dark gray sky, with a distant storm front gathering on the horizon. The footage, viewed through a film frame, shows subtle motion as the camera moves across the flat terrain, emphasizing the vastness of the plains. The grainy texture and muted colors evoke a sense of nostalgia and archival authenticity, perfect for historical or documentary projects.

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: 123758004

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 Colorado home-movie landscape footage suited to documentary inserts about weather, rural travel, open land, or ominous sky conditions.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, rounded frame edges, muted palette, and moving roadside viewpoint support the 1962 home-movie context, while no built landmarks or dated objects are visible.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged traveler’s glance across open fields toward a dark weather front rather than a composed scenic landscape.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include green fields, brown foreground earth, a low horizon, heavy gray clouds, distant brighter sky, film gate edges, and soft handheld motion.
Film character: Grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, rounded frame corners, and muted color give the scanned 8mm footage a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a weather cutaway, road-trip transition, landscape insert, or quiet memory beat before or after storm-related material.
Historical context: The frames show rural open land in Summit County, Colorado, with a broad sky and distant storm clouds, offering visual context for travel and landscape records of the era.
Research note: No people, brands, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and confirm location claims against source documentation.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1962 8mm Colorado storm clouds, Summit County home movie landscape, dark weather over fields, and vintage rural road footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Summit County Colorado views, then broader vintage weather, plains, and travel landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Summit County, Colorado 8mm frame showing open fields beneath a heavy gray storm front on the horizon. — Dark weather front over low fields, seen through rounded 8mm frame edges.

1962 Summit County, Colorado landscape frame with flat green ground, brown field edge, and a dark weather front beyond. — Flat fields and distant storm clouds under a heavy sky.

8mm home-movie view of Summit County fields under dark gray clouds, with soft exposure and film grain visible. — Low open land below a broad, overcast sky.

1962 Colorado 8mm frame showing open rural land and a distant dark weather system across the horizon. — Distant storm front over rural fields in a soft 8mm frame.

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