Summit County Colorado USA-1962: Approaching View Of Mountains And Green Trees

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

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Approaching View Of Mountains And Green Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a forward-moving view from a vehicle traveling along a wet, two-lane highway through Summit County, Colorado. Lush green mountains and dense forests line both sides of the road under an overcast sky, with visible tire tracks on the damp pavement. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering a nostalgic perspective of a 1960s road journey through the Colorado Rockies. This authentic archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical content, and retro-themed projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123759026

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 requests for early-1960s Colorado mountain road travel, vehicle-point-of-view scenery, and understated archival transitions in documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The clip may show a 1962-era paved two-lane highway through Summit County, with modest roadside signs, wet pavement, forested slopes, and overcast mountain weather visible.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the observational value of a passenger or driver filming a routine mountain approach from inside a moving vehicle, without staging or narration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wet two-lane road, dark tire tracks, green mountain slopes, roadside trees and shrubs, distant hills, cloudy sky, and small road signs.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, visible grain, slight gate edges, color fading, and exposure variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a travel insert, route-establishing cutaway, weather transition, or quiet memory beat within a Rocky Mountain journey sequence.
Historical context: The view documents automobile travel through a wooded Colorado mountain corridor, emphasizing landscape, road surface, and weather rather than identifiable people or events.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in the supplied frames, but copyright and location-use questions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1960s 8mm Colorado highway, Summit County mountain road, wet road travel footage, and vintage Rocky Mountain driving view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1962 Summit County road or mountain views, then with broader vintage Colorado travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 8mm view from a moving vehicle on a wet highway through Summit County, Colorado, with wooded hills ahead. — A damp mountain road stretches forward between green slopes under overcast sky.

Vehicle-point-of-view frame of a wet Summit County mountain road in 1962, bordered by green slopes and brush. — The road continues through a forested mountain pass with damp pavement and muted light.

1962 8mm road-travel frame showing a wet two-lane highway in Summit County with trees, hills, and a small roadside sign. — Wet tire marks lead the eye down the highway toward tree-covered hills.

Final 1962 8mm frame of a damp Summit County road receding toward wooded slopes and low clouds. — The highway narrows into the distance between green mountain slopes and gray sky.

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