Summit County Colorado USA-1962: A Dark View Of A Town Building

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

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A Dark View Of A Town Building — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a dark, atmospheric night view of a town in Summit County, Colorado. The grainy footage shows a silhouetted building against a deep blue twilight sky, with faint lights glowing in the distance. The image has a nostalgic, low-light quality typical of Super 8 home movies, with visible film grain and a slightly distorted frame. This archival clip evokes a sense of quiet isolation and mid-century Americana, perfect for historical documentaries or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 123758163

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 home-movie footage for requests needing a low-light town or building exterior cutaway in Summit County, Colorado.
Period detail: The clip may show a mid-century town setting, with only distant lights, dark building silhouettes, and twilight exposure visible enough for era context.
Home-movie behavior: The view has the feel of a handheld visitor shot, held briefly on a dark town building and surrounding lights rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark building silhouette, blue evening sky, faint horizon, small colored lights, deep shadows, and film-frame edges.
Film character: The footage carries dense 8mm grain, underexposed shadows, blue color shift, soft focus, and slight frame instability typical of low-light home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief night insert, atmospheric transition, town cutaway, or memory beat within a Colorado or 1960s travel sequence.
Historical context: The scene gives a quiet view of a Colorado town at dusk or night without enough visible detail to identify a specific building or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but building identity and property context should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1962 8mm Colorado town at night, Summit County building silhouette, blue twilight home movie, and vintage night exterior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1962 Summit County material, then with other dark town views or twilight building exteriors.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 8mm frame from Summit County, Colorado showing a very dark town view with scattered lights and silhouetted structures. — A dim town scene with small lights visible against heavy night shadows.

1962 Summit County 8mm frame showing a blocky building silhouette set against a deep blue evening sky. — A dark stepped building shape stands against the blue twilight background.

Low-light 1962 home-movie frame from Summit County with a dark building outline and blue sky behind it. — The building remains mostly in silhouette, with only the sky giving shape to the scene.

Final 1962 8mm frame showing the building nearly black against a blue twilight sky with one small light below. — The view ends on a nearly black silhouette with a single faint light in the lower frame.

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