Summit County Colorado USA-1962: The View Of A Descending Plane At The End Of

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

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The View Of A Descending Plane At The End Of — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a nighttime descent over Summit County, Colorado. The view from a descending plane shows a dark landscape illuminated by scattered city lights and glowing neon signs. A prominent spire rises against the deep blue twilight sky, while the camera slowly pans across the urban glow below. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and lens flare, offering a nostalgic perspective of mid-century air travel and small-town America.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: AerialNight
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123758148

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: Useful for 1960s aviation, travel, or nighttime arrival sequences needing real 8mm home-movie footage from Colorado.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century air-travel perspective through dark exposure, scattered neon-like lights, and a silhouetted spire against blue twilight.
Home-movie behavior: The value is the passenger viewpoint, with the camera catching dim lights and motion from a descending plane rather than a staged city view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark skyline, blue twilight bands, a pointed spire silhouette, scattered colored lights, vertical illuminated signs, and heavy shadow.
Film character: The 8mm texture shows deep underexposure, saturated blue and red color shifts, soft focus, grain, and flare from bright night lights.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief arrival insert, travel transition, nighttime cutaway, or memory beat for air travel and small-town night scenes.
Historical context: The clip offers a limited passenger-eye glimpse of night lighting and signage in a Colorado setting without enough detail to identify specific businesses or landmarks.
Research note: No people are visible, but the illuminated signs and possible property silhouettes should be reviewed for identification, and copyright clearance is separate from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Search phrases include 1962 8mm airplane descent at night, Summit County Colorado home movie, vintage flight arrival lights, and 1960s night travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Summit County or 1962 Colorado material, then broader 1960s air-travel and nighttime town-light footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 8mm nighttime descent view over Summit County, Colorado, with blue twilight, sparse lights, and a dark spire shape. — A dim passenger-view frame shows blue twilight and small colored lights below.

A dark 1962 Colorado descent frame shows sparse city lights, a silhouetted spire, and bright vertical illuminated sign shapes. — Colored lights and vertical sign glow appear beneath a dark skyline during descent.

Nighttime 8mm descent view in Summit County, Colorado, with underexposed town lights and bright sign glow near the bottom of frame. — Bright sign shapes and scattered lights register against a mostly dark landscape.

The final 1962 descent frame shows a mostly black Colorado night view punctuated by scattered colored lights and vertical sign glow. — Sparse colored lights remain visible as the plane descends through a dark night scene.

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