Summit County Colorado USA-1962: Dark City Landscape at Night

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

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Dark City Landscape at Night — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this clip captures a dark, blurry cityscape at night from an elevated viewpoint. The scene is dominated by deep blue and black tones, with scattered bokeh lights from buildings and streetlamps creating a hazy, atmospheric glow. A faint silhouette of a structure, possibly a church steeple, emerges on the horizon. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and soft focus, evoking a sense of mystery and nostalgia. This vintage home movie offers authentic archival footage for documentaries, editorial projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 123758123

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 8mm night cityscape footage for documentary inserts, memory sequences, mood transitions, or archival context where a dark elevated urban view is needed.
Period detail: The frames may show a 1962 Summit County, Colorado night skyline, but visible era clues are limited to the 8mm color film texture and sparse distant lights.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot viewpoint from a high or distant position, recording the city after dark without staged action or identifiable subjects.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark horizon, blue night sky bands, indistinct building silhouettes, scattered red and yellow lights, a possible steeple shape, and heavy shadow.
Film character: The footage has dense exposure, soft focus, blue-black color cast, visible grain, and low-light blur consistent with handheld 8mm home-movie night photography.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief atmospheric cutaway, night transition, location-memory beat, or abstract establishing insert between clearer Summit County scenes.
Historical context: The view suggests a small urban or town landscape seen after dark, with limited visual detail and no supported claim about a specific landmark or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but location and property identification remain uncertain and copyright clearance is separate from likeness or property review.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1962 8mm Colorado night cityscape, Summit County dark skyline, blurry vintage home movie lights, or elevated town view at night.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Summit County material, then broader vintage night landscape or abstract city-light footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Summit County, Colorado 8mm frame showing a very dark elevated night view with faint horizon silhouettes and a few blurred city lights. — Dark elevated night view with faint skyline shapes and scattered lights.

Dark 8mm night view from Summit County, Colorado, with a blue horizon band, indistinct structures, and sparse blurred lights in the distance. — Sparse distant lights appear beneath a blue-black night horizon.

1962 8mm frame with a mostly black night landscape, faint urban silhouettes, and small red, yellow, and blue light points. — A mostly black night landscape with isolated colored light points.

Summit County 1962 night frame showing a blue-black horizon, a possible steeple-like silhouette, and a few bright blurred lights at right. — Blue night horizon with a possible steeple shape and bright blurred lights.

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