Summit County Colorado USA-1962: Travelling In A Bus During A Rainstorm Heading

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

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Travelling In A Bus During A Rainstorm Heading — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a rainy drive through Summit County, Colorado. The camera, positioned inside a moving vehicle, shows a wet asphalt road winding toward a tunnel carved into a rocky mountainside. Rain streaks the windshield, and the view is framed by the car's interior, with a shadow of a hand or object visible in one frame. The footage has a grainy, nostalgic quality, with muted greens and grays dominating the scene. The journey continues through the tunnel, with light visible at the far end, evoking a sense of travel and adventure in the American West.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Interior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123758969

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-era documentary requests needing a rainy mountain-road travel view from Colorado home-movie footage.
Period detail: The clip may show early-1960s road travel through a rocky mountain corridor, with a wet paved highway and tunnel approach visible through a vehicle window.
Home-movie behavior: The value is the passenger-shot viewpoint from inside a moving bus or vehicle during bad weather, with the road unfolding without staging.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a rain-streaked window, wet asphalt, lane markings, roadside guardrail, rocky slope, evergreen trees, tunnel mouths, and dark vehicle framing.
Film character: The 8mm color image has soft focus, visible grain, muted green-gray tones, handheld vibration, and exposure shifts consistent with scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel insert, weather transition, road-trip cutaway, or memory beat before a mountain tunnel sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents ordinary automobile or bus travel in a mountainous Colorado setting, emphasizing weather, road infrastructure, and passenger perspective rather than people.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, route identification, and any property or roadway permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Search matches include 1960s Colorado mountain road footage, rainy windshield travel shot, 8mm tunnel approach, and Summit County road home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1962 Summit County or Colorado travel footage, then with rainy road and tunnel travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Summit County, Colorado home-movie frame showing a rain-slick highway curving toward two tunnels in a rocky mountainside. — Rainy road approach toward twin tunnel openings in a rocky mountain corridor.

Passenger-view 8mm frame from Summit County, Colorado, with rain on the glass and a wet highway leading into mountain tunnels. — Wet highway and tunnel entrances viewed from inside a moving vehicle.

1962 color 8mm view of a wet Summit County mountain road, framed by the vehicle interior as it approaches tunnels cut into rock. — Approaching mountain tunnels on a rain-darkened roadway.

Late frame of the 1962 Summit County road scene, showing rain on the window, wet pavement, and tunnel openings ahead in the rock. — Rain-streaked vehicle view as the road nears the tunnel mouths.

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