Summit County Colorado USA-1962: Driving Around A Mountain Road With River On

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

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Driving Around A Mountain Road With River On — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a scenic drive along a winding mountain road in Summit County, Colorado. The camera follows a light-colored car navigating a sharp curve, with a river visible alongside the road and dense forested slopes rising on either side. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and a slightly overexposed sky, evoking a nostalgic 1960s road trip atmosphere. This authentic archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 123758880

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: 1960s Colorado home-movie road footage for productions needing a brief mountain-driving insert, travel transition, or period road-trip cutaway.
Period detail: The light-colored car, narrow winding highway, yellow center line, and 8mm color stock may show early-1960s recreational travel through the Colorado mountains.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a passenger filming through a vehicle window while following another car along a scenic mountain road.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a curving paved road, yellow center line, white lane markings, river at left, forested slopes, rocky embankments, and a small light-colored car.
Film character: The 8mm image carries visible grain, soft focus, dark edge vignetting, slight gate weave, color shift, and a bright sky typical of home-movie scanning from physical film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel insert, road-trip transition, landscape cutaway, or memory beat between broader Colorado or mountain vacation scenes.
Historical context: The footage reflects mid-century leisure travel through mountainous terrain, with the road, river, and forest landscape emphasized over people or buildings.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in these frames, but copyright, location verification, and any broader reel context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1962 8mm Colorado mountain road, Summit County river drive, vintage home movie highway curve, and 1960s scenic car travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Summit County or Colorado travel footage, then broader vintage mountain-road and river-driving scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Summit County, Colorado 8mm frame showing a car ahead on a curving mountain road with river and wooded slopes nearby. — A car follows a bend in the mountain road beside the river.

1962 Summit County, Colorado road view with a light-colored car rounding a curve beside a river and forested mountain slope. — The vehicle continues around the curve with the river visible to the left.

1962 Summit County, Colorado 8mm road scene showing a car farther ahead on a winding highway beside a river and steep wooded hillside. — The road bends through the valley as the car moves farther ahead.

Final 1962 Summit County, Colorado frame with a small car on a mountain road, river at left, and forested slopes around the curve. — The car recedes along the river road through the mountain curve.

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