Summit County Colorado USA-1962: Night View Of City Lights And Frozen Landscape

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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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Night View Of City Lights And Frozen Landscape — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a nighttime view of Summit County, Colorado. The clip opens with a wide, grainy landscape under a pale sky, possibly a frozen field with indistinct shapes. It transitions to a dark, blurry scene before revealing a cityscape at night, with scattered lights glowing against a deep blue twilight sky. Buildings are silhouetted in the distance, and the footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, scratches, and light leaks, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. The sequence suggests a personal recording of a winter evening, blending natural and urban elements.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123758041

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

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s 8mm Colorado home-movie footage for editors needing a brief winter night landscape, town-lights insert, or atmospheric regional transition.
Period detail: The frames may show early-1960s amateur exposure habits, with a pale frozen landscape followed by blue twilight silhouettes and scattered town lights.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor or resident viewpoint, holding on distant terrain and nighttime lights rather than staged subjects.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a washed winter ground plane, indistinct dark shapes, blue twilight sky, silhouetted rooflines or hills, scattered lights, film borders, and exposure shifts.
Film character: The 8mm scan has heavy grain, soft focus, dark underexposure, blue color cast, dust, scratches, and gate-edge darkness that mark it as physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quiet night insert, winter-memory beat, location transition, or establishing cutaway before or after brighter daytime Colorado material.
Historical context: The footage visually suggests a small mountain-area winter evening, but the frames do not identify specific buildings, landmarks, or events.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable signs are visible, but location, copyright, and any property context should still be reviewed before reuse.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1962 8mm Colorado winter night, Summit County city lights, frozen landscape home movie, and blue twilight town view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel winter or travel footage, then with 1962 Summit County material, then with night lights, snow, and mountain-town atmosphere.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Summit County home-movie frame showing a washed, possibly frozen landscape with soft dark shapes and visible 8mm grain. — A pale winter ground view appears through soft focus and uneven exposure.

Dark 1962 Summit County twilight view with scattered town lights beneath a deep blue sky and silhouetted structures or hills. — Small lights glow below a dark blue evening skyline.

1962 Summit County night view with glowing points of light, a blue horizon, and dark building or hillside silhouettes. — Distant lights sit under a blue winter night sky.

Final 1962 Summit County frame showing scattered night lights against a dark foreground and blue twilight horizon. — The clip ends on dim town lights and a soft blue horizon.

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