Summit County Colorado USA-1962: Footage Of A Journey On A Road In The Mountains

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

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Footage Of A Journey On A Road In The Mountains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a scenic journey through Summit County, Colorado. The footage, viewed from a moving vehicle, shows a winding mountain road flanked by steep rocky cliffs and dense forest. A rushing river runs parallel to the road in several frames, with a metal guardrail visible in the foreground. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural motion blur, conveying a nostalgic, authentic travel experience through the rugged Colorado wilderness.

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: 123758933

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 documentary or educational edits needing authentic Colorado mountain-road travel from a moving vehicle.
Period detail: The footage may show early-1960s roadside infrastructure, including a narrow guardrailed road through steep mountain terrain.
Home-movie behavior: The camera records an unstaged passenger view, valuing the travel experience more than formal scenery composition.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a winding road, metal guardrail, rushing river, rocky cliffs, forested slopes, distant hills and vehicle-window framing.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, muted color, uneven exposure and motion blur from filming through a moving vehicle.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel insert, mountain-route transition, road-trip cutaway or reflective memory beat.
Historical context: The clip documents recreational or personal travel through a rugged Colorado mountain corridor without showing identifiable people or businesses.
Research note: No people, logos or private property are visible, but users should separately assess copyright status and any location or roadway permissions.
Research search match: Researcher matches include 1960s 8mm Colorado mountain road, Summit County river roadside, vintage home movie car travel and Rocky Mountain highway footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel travel scenes, then Summit County or Colorado 1962 material, then broader mountain-road and river-valley journey footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Summit County, Colorado home-movie frame showing a road, guardrail, river and dark rocky mountain slopes. — A vehicle passes a guarded mountain road with a river running below the rocky slopes.

Passenger-view frame of a Summit County mountain road curving above a rushing river between rocky slopes. — The road curves along a guardrail as the river moves through the mountain valley.

1960s 8mm travel frame showing a river channel, roadside railing and steep Colorado mountain slopes. — A rushing river fills the foreground below the roadside railing and rocky hills.

Summit County home-movie frame with a river, roadside guardrail, rocky outcrop and dark mountain wall. — The passenger view looks down the river corridor past guardrail posts and rocky slopes.

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