Summit County Colorado USA-1962: A Bird's Eye View From A Plane Of The Nighttime Landscape

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

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A Bird's Eye View From A Plane Of The Nighttime Landscape — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a nighttime aerial view from an airplane over Summit County, Colorado. The footage shows blurred city lights and illuminated structures below, with a prominent green streak of light across the frame, likely from a runway or highway. The dark, grainy image evokes a sense of mystery and nostalgia, offering a rare glimpse of mid-century air travel and urban development from above. The camera remains steady, emphasizing the quiet isolation of flight at night.

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: 123758206

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 archival requests needing a brief night-flight view or abstract aerial travel insert from Colorado home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frames show dark, soft 8mm night exposure with scattered lights below, and the 1962 Summit County setting is supported by clip metadata rather than visible landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The value is the passenger perspective of looking down from an aircraft at night, with no staged action or visible people in frame.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include black sky or ground darkness, blurred light clusters, a diagonal green light streak, faint illuminated rows, film grain, and contact-sheet frame borders.
Film character: The clip has heavy 8mm grain, low-light softness, deep underexposure, color shifts, and slight blur that read as authentic home-movie night footage.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short transition, memory beat, travel cutaway, or atmospheric insert suggesting nighttime flight and distance.
Historical context: As archival home-movie footage, it may reflect mid-century leisure or travel by air, but the frames do not identify specific infrastructure or landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location, aircraft context, and any property or infrastructure identification should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1962 8mm nighttime aerial footage, Summit County Colorado home movie, plane window night view, and abstract city lights from above.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Summit County material, then broader 1960s travel, airplane, and night landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Summit County home-movie frame showing a dark nighttime aerial view with scattered lights and a diagonal green light streak. — Scattered lights and a green diagonal streak appear in a dark night-flight view.

Dark 8mm night aerial frame from the Summit County clip with a small blurred cluster of greenish lights visible below. — A small cluster of greenish lights sits in an otherwise dark aerial frame.

1962 Colorado night-flight frame showing a blurred illuminated cluster against a largely black 8mm film background. — Blurred lights form a low cluster in the dark nighttime view.

Very dark final frame from the Summit County night aerial clip, with faint bluish haze and minimal visible detail. — The final frame is mostly dark, with a faint bluish haze near the lower area.

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