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Summit County Colorado USA-1962: Green Fields and Storm Clouds Above Small Town

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  • Year1962
  • Decade1960s
  • LocationSummit, Colorado, United States
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1962 · Summit, Colorado, United States
  • StatusDirect License

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Green Fields and Storm Clouds Above Small Town — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping view of the Colorado plains from a moving vehicle. The footage opens on a vast green field under a dramatic, overcast sky with dark storm clouds gathering on the horizon. As the camera moves forward, the landscape shifts to reveal a small town nestled among trees, with houses and buildings visible in the distance. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight motion blur, and natural color fading, offering an authentic slice of mid-century Americana. A few birds briefly appear in the sky, adding to the nostalgic, observational feel of this archival footage.

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
123758010

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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Topics & Keywords

  • reel
  • town
  • storm
  • houses
  • plains
  • school
  • video
  • small
  • america
  • nature
  • summit county colorado USA
  • 1962
  • 1962 home movie footage
  • vintage 8mm film
  • Summit County Colorado
  • small town America
  • storm clouds over plains
  • moving vehicle view
  • Super 8 grain
  • rural landscape
  • American Midwest
  • archival footage
  • old film
  • nostalgic clip
  • 1960s Americana
  • documentary style
  • vintage home movie
  • nature scenery
  • rural town
  • film grain
  • historical footage
  • classic 8mm

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1960s Rocky Mountain region travel, weather, rural landscape, or small-town establishing material in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail
The clip may show a 1962 visitor-shot view of open Colorado fields and a distant town, with period detail carried mainly by the 8mm color stock and moving-car viewpoint.
Home-movie behavior
The footage has an unstaged passenger-window perspective, recording weather and roadside scenery as part of a family or travel journey rather than a composed scenic survey.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include green fields, brown roadside ground, dark storm clouds, a pale sky, distant trees, low buildings, and hazy hills.
Film character
The 8mm scan shows soft focus, rounded frame edges, color fading, grain, and slight motion blur that preserve the physical texture of home-movie film.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, travel transition, storm-weather cutaway, or memory beat before a Colorado town sequence.
Historical context
The view suggests mid-century road travel through a rural or small-town Colorado landscape, without enough visible detail to identify specific buildings or landmarks.
Research note
No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property concerns should be checked against source and intended use.
Research search match
Matches searches for 1962 8mm Colorado plains, storm clouds over rural fields, small town from moving vehicle, and vintage home-movie road travel.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then Summit County Colorado material from 1962, then broader 1960s rural travel and storm landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Colorado home-movie view of open green field and brown roadside under a heavy, overcast sky.

Storm clouds hang over an open field as the camera passes the roadside.

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A moving 8mm view across Colorado plains with low green field, brown foreground, and storm clouds on the horizon.

The roadside landscape continues under a dark, unsettled sky.

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1962 Summit County view from a moving vehicle, showing fields, trees, low buildings, and hazy hills in the distance.

A small town and tree line appear beyond the fields in a soft moving shot.

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Distant Colorado town edge with trees and low structures under a muted sky, softened by 8mm motion and exposure.

Trees and low buildings pass at the edge of the distant townscape.

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