Summit County Colorado USA-1962: Vehicle On Highway Driving Through A Tunnel In

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

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Vehicle On Highway Driving Through A Tunnel In — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a vehicle driving along a wet highway through Summit County, Colorado. The camera, positioned inside the car, shows the road approaching and entering a tunnel carved into a rocky mountainside. Rain-slicked pavement reflects the dim light, and the journey continues through the dark tunnel before emerging into daylight. The footage features classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and natural film imperfections, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical projects.

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: 123758987

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

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s Colorado 8mm travel footage for productions needing a short driving POV through a wet mountain highway tunnel.
Period detail: The clip may show early-1960s roadside conditions, with a two-lane paved highway, sparse lane markings, and tunnel openings cut into a rocky slope.
Home-movie behavior: The unstaged value is the passenger or driver perspective, recording a brief mountain road passage from inside a moving car.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include wet pavement, dashed center lines, rocky tunnel portals, roadside walls, dark tunnel interior, and daylight beyond the exit.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, heavy grain, color shift, gate edges, and exposure changes as the camera moves from daylight into tunnel darkness.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel insert, road-transition beat, tunnel cutaway, or memory fragment within a Colorado vacation sequence.
Historical context: The view documents automobile travel through a mountain corridor in Summit County without showing identifiable travelers, businesses, or roadside signs.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, though users should review copyright status and any location-specific property concerns separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1962 Colorado 8mm highway tunnel, Summit County wet road driving POV, and vintage home movie mountain tunnel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Summit County or 1962 Colorado travel clips, then broader rainy highway and tunnel-driving footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Summit County, Colorado 8mm frame showing a wet highway leading toward dark tunnel portals in a rocky slope. — A rain-slicked mountain road approaches tunnel openings cut into rock.

Vehicle-perspective 8mm frame from Summit County, Colorado, with wet pavement and a tunnel entrance ahead. — The road continues toward a dark tunnel portal with reflected light on the pavement.

1962 Colorado home-movie frame showing the car nearing tunnel portals along a rain-darkened highway. — The camera draws closer to twin tunnel openings along the rocky roadside.

Inside a dark highway tunnel, the 8mm camera looks toward a bright opening and road beyond in Summit County, Colorado. — From inside the tunnel, daylight frames the road and hillside outside.

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