Summit County Colorado USA-1962: A Vehicle Drives Through A Mountain With A

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

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A Vehicle Drives Through A Mountain With A — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a first-person view from a vehicle driving along a narrow mountain road in Summit County, Colorado. The road winds through a rugged, tree-covered landscape with rocky hillsides and a distant tunnel entrance. Yellow double lines mark the asphalt, and roadside signs are visible. The footage shows natural film grain, slight color fading, and a dark vignette, characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the early 1960s. The perspective suggests a scenic drive through the Colorado Rockies.

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: 123758739

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: Supports 1960s archival requests for vehicle POV travel through a Colorado mountain road in documentary, museum, education, or editorial productions.
Period detail: The paved two-lane road, roadside warning signs, 8mm color stock, and vehicle-window viewpoint may show early 1960s recreational travel through the Colorado Rockies.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a passenger filming a scenic mountain drive from inside a moving vehicle.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a winding asphalt road, double yellow center lines, rocky hillsides, evergreen slopes, roadside signs, a distant tunnel entrance, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The footage shows visible 8mm grain, soft focus, slight color shift, exposure variation, and dark vignetting that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel insert, road-trip transition, mountain approach cutaway, or brief memory beat before a tunnel or landscape sequence.
Historical context: The view places midcentury car travel within a rugged mountain corridor, with road signage and narrow pavement suggesting a scenic but constrained route.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but users should still verify copyright status and any location-specific property or roadway permissions.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1962 Colorado mountain road 8mm, Summit County driving POV, vintage Rockies road trip, and home movie tunnel approach.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Summit County or 1962 Colorado footage, then broader mountain-road and vehicle-POV travel clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 8mm vehicle POV on a narrow Summit County, Colorado mountain road approaching a distant tunnel through rocky terrain. — A moving vehicle approaches a mountain tunnel along a narrow paved road.

Vehicle-mounted or passenger-shot 8mm view of a Summit County mountain road curving toward a small tunnel entrance in 1962. — The road bends through rocky Colorado terrain toward a tunnel opening.

Summit County, Colorado driving POV on 8mm film, with roadside signs, yellow center lines, and rocky mountain slopes visible. — Roadside signs pass as the vehicle continues along the mountain road.

1962 8mm vehicle POV in Summit County, Colorado, showing a narrow road leading toward a dark tunnel opening in the mountains. — The road narrows visually as it leads toward the tunnel in the mountainside.

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