Summit County Colorado USA-1962: Driving Through A Brick Lined Dark Tunnel On A

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

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Driving Through A Brick Lined Dark Tunnel On A — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a classic American road trip through Summit County, Colorado. The footage begins with a white classic car entering a dark, brick-lined tunnel, its headlights cutting through the shadows. As the vehicle advances, the tunnel's stone arches frame the journey, with yellow lane lines guiding the way. The perspective shifts to a first-person view from inside the car, showing the road ahead as the vehicle emerges into darkness, with distant lights and a faint view of the Earth-like planet visible in the final frames. The grainy, nostalgic quality of the Super 8 film evokes mid-century Americana and the spirit of exploration.

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: 123758700

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 American road-trip edits needing first-person mountain driving, tunnel entry, or mid-century highway travel in Colorado home-movie footage.
Period detail: The white car, double yellow center lines, rough stone tunnel portal, and 8mm color stock support an early-1960s road-travel setting without identifying a specific tunnel.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves a passenger or driver viewpoint of entering and passing through a dark tunnel, giving the scene an unstaged vacation-road perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a stone tunnel arch, white classic car, double yellow lane lines, dark tunnel interior, small headlights, rough roadside rock, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, heavy grain, dark exposure shifts, gate edges, and slight handheld movement that read as authentic physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition into darkness, road-trip cutaway, or memory beat suggesting travel through mountains or an uncertain passage.
Historical context: The footage reflects mid-century automobile tourism and mountain-road travel as seen from a family-film perspective, with the tunnel architecture dominating the scene.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but tunnel location, roadway ownership, and copyright status should still be reviewed separately from likeness concerns.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1960s 8mm Colorado road trip, Summit County tunnel driving, vintage home movie highway, dark tunnel POV, and mid-century car travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1962 Summit County road scenes, then with broader vintage tunnel, mountain highway, or road-trip footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Summit County home-movie frame showing a white car near a stone-lined tunnel entrance with yellow lane lines. — A white car passes the stone portal of a dark mountain-road tunnel.

Interior tunnel view from 1962 Colorado road-trip footage, with yellow center lines fading into darkness and distant lights ahead. — The camera looks down the yellow lines into the dark tunnel interior.

Grainy 8mm tunnel interior from the Colorado road-trip clip, with small vehicle lights and a bright overhead or reflected point in darkness. — Small lights punctuate the dark tunnel as the car continues forward.

Final dark 8mm frame from the 1962 Summit County tunnel sequence, showing a single bright point against low-exposure film grain. — The tunnel scene falls into near darkness with one bright point visible.

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