Summit County Colorado USA-1962: Driving Along Scenic Mountain Road With Guardrail

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

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Driving Along Scenic Mountain Road With Guardrail — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a scenic drive through Summit County, Colorado. The view from the car window shows a rugged mountain road winding alongside a rocky embankment, with a dark, textured cliff face rising above. A metal guardrail runs along the edge of the road, and the footage has the characteristic grain and soft focus of Super 8 film. The perspective suggests motion through a remote, natural landscape, evoking a sense of quiet adventure and mid-century Americana.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123758556

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 archival requests needing a brief road-travel insert from Colorado mountain terrain, especially for documentary sequences about scenic driving or mid-century vacation movement.
Period detail: The 8mm color look, car-window viewpoint, painted road markings, and metal guardrail may show early 1960s leisure travel through a rocky mountain road corridor.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a traveler filming from a moving car, prioritizing the passing landscape over posed subjects or planned action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a paved mountain road, metal guardrail, rocky cliff face, roadside stones, dark forested slopes, and patches of pale snow or water near the road edge.
Film character: The footage carries dense grain, soft focus, low exposure in the shadowed canyon, slight blur from vehicle motion, and the uneven color typical of scanned small-gauge home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short travel insert, road-transition beat, or atmospheric cutaway between broader scenes of Colorado recreation or mountain-route movement.
Historical context: The view places the camera inside everyday automobile travel, showing how a rugged mountain landscape was recorded casually by a visitor rather than staged as a scenic postcard.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but location and copyright status should still be verified separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1960s Colorado mountain road 8mm, Summit County scenic drive home movie, vintage guardrail road travel, and rocky canyon roadside footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1962 Summit County travel scenes, then broader vintage mountain driving and roadside landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Summit County, Colorado 8mm frame showing a shadowed rocky embankment and roadside guardrail from a moving vehicle. — A guardrail passes along a dark rocky mountain roadside.

1962 Summit County, Colorado road-travel frame with a guardrail, pale roadside stones, and a shadowed cliff face. — The camera passes a guardrail below a dark rock wall.

Shadowed 8mm travel frame from Summit County, Colorado, showing rough roadside rocks and a guardrail beside the mountain road. — Rocky ground and the roadside barrier slide past the car window.

1962 Summit County, Colorado frame looking down a paved mountain road with a guardrail, cliff walls, and pale roadside patches. — The road continues through a narrow rocky mountain corridor.

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