Summit County Colorado USA-1962: View Of City Lights And Tower On A Cloudy Evening

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

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View Of City Lights And Tower On A Cloudy Evening — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a moody evening view of Summit County, Colorado. The clip opens with a dark, silhouetted cityscape under a cloudy twilight sky, where scattered lights from buildings and a prominent tower glow against the deep blue horizon. As the scene progresses, the camera slowly pans across the urban landscape, revealing more illuminated structures and the soft blur of distant traffic. The grainy, low-light quality of the Super 8 footage enhances the nostalgic, atmospheric feel of this archival cityscape.

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: 123758103

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: Useful for 1960s Colorado home-movie requests needing a brief twilight city-light insert, skyline transition, or atmospheric evening cutaway.
Period detail: The footage may show a mid-century visitor view, with dark tower silhouettes, scattered street or building lights, and low-light color exposure typical of small-gauge travel filming.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged handheld look of someone filming distant lights and skyline forms from a fixed or slowly moving vantage point at dusk.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a cloudy blue evening sky, dark building and tower silhouettes, scattered colored lights, vertical glowing signs or windows, and blurred traffic-like points.
Film character: The 8mm image has pronounced grain, soft focus, deep underexposure, gate edges, and color shifts that give the twilight scene a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a short mood insert, place-setting transition, memory beat, or visual bridge into night, travel, weather, or mountain-town material.
Historical context: The scene gives a quiet visual record of an evening built environment in Summit County, without identifiable people, signage, or a confirmed landmark in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or clear private interiors are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property context should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1962 8mm Colorado evening lights, Summit County twilight skyline, vintage home movie city lights, cloudy dusk tower view, and 1960s travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Summit County or 1962 Colorado material, then broader 1960s dusk, city lights, weather, and travel-view footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Summit County, Colorado 8mm frame showing silhouetted towers and scattered city lights under a cloudy twilight sky. — Cloudy evening skyline with distant lights and dark tower forms.

Low-light 8mm view of Summit County at dusk, with silhouetted structures, a tower form, and blurred street or building lights. — Distant lights glow below a bright band of evening sky.

Underexposed 1962 home-movie frame from Summit County, showing sparse colored lights against a mostly dark evening view. — Sparse evening lights register through a very dark exposure.

Final 8mm frame of the Summit County dusk view, with scattered colored lights and very dark silhouetted surroundings. — The view settles into darkness with a few distant lights visible.

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