Summit County Colorado USA-1962: Driving On A Wet Mountain Highway

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

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Driving On A Wet Mountain Highway — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a first-person view from a moving vehicle traveling along a winding mountain highway in Summit County, Colorado. The road stretches through a forested landscape with green hillsides under an overcast sky. Wet pavement reflects the light, suggesting recent rain, and a distant green highway sign indicates the route. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight camera shake, offering authentic retro Americana footage ideal 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: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123759048

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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: 1960s 8mm road-travel footage for documentary sequences needing a driver’s-view insert of a wet mountain highway in Summit County, Colorado.
Period detail: The clip shows a mid-century divided highway, guardrails, sparse roadside signs, and undeveloped mountain slopes that may show Colorado road travel conditions in the early 1960s.
Home-movie behavior: The value is the unstaged passenger or driver perspective, with the camera riding inside a moving vehicle as the road curves through the mountains after rain.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include wet asphalt, lane markings, guardrails, forested hillsides, overcast sky, roadside fencing, and a green highway sign in the distance.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, gate edges, and handheld vibration that place the view clearly within home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel insert, rainy-road transition, mountain approach cutaway, or brief memory beat in a 1960s Colorado sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents automobile travel through a mountainous rural highway corridor, with little visible development beyond road infrastructure and signs.
Research note: No people are visible, but the roadside sign and possible route markings should be reviewed for identification; copyright and location permissions remain separate checks.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1960s Colorado highway footage, 8mm mountain road travel, wet pavement driving view, and Summit County home movie road footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1962 Summit County material, then broader vintage Colorado road travel or rainy highway footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 8mm view along a wet highway in Summit County, Colorado, with forested slopes and guardrails ahead. — A wet mountain highway stretches between green hills under a cloudy sky.

Driver’s-view 8mm frame on a wet Summit County mountain road, with guardrails and tree-covered slopes ahead. — The vehicle continues along reflective pavement through a mountain corridor.

1962 Colorado road-travel frame showing a curve near a green highway sign, fencing, and rocky mountain slope. — A green highway sign appears as the wet road bends along the hillside.

Summit County 8mm frame of a wet highway curve passing a green sign and fence below a scrub-covered slope. — The road curves past a green sign at the base of a mountain slope.

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