Summit County Colorado USA-1962: Car Driving Down The Freeway With Hills In The Background

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

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Car Driving Down The Freeway With Hills In The Background — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a classic American road trip through Summit County, Colorado. The footage shows a white station wagon driving along a winding highway flanked by rugged, tree-covered hills. A green highway sign for Idaho Spgs. and Exit 1000 ft. appears, followed by a larger overhead sign for Grand Junction and Idaho Spgs. The view is framed as if shot from a moving vehicle, with natural film grain and color saturation typical of 1960s home movies. This archival clip evokes nostalgia for mid-century travel and Americana.

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: 123759092

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s U.S. road-trip or interstate travel requests needing real 8mm highway footage from Colorado.
Period detail: The station wagon, green highway signs, open mountain roadway, and 8mm color stock support an early-1960s travel context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a passenger-window or windshield viewpoint, preserving an unstaged family-road-trip perspective from a moving car.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a curving highway, wooded hills, roadside and overhead green signs, guardrails, utility poles, sky, and a white station wagon.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm grain, mild exposure fluctuation, saturated color, and handheld vehicle movement consistent with home-movie scanning.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a travel transition, road-trip insert, location approach, or mid-century mobility memory beat.
Historical context: The frames document highway travel through a mountainous Colorado setting, with directional signage and car-centered movement as the main context.
Research note: No people are visible, but roadway signage and possible identifiers should be reviewed separately from copyright and location-use questions.
Research search match: Search matches include 1960s Colorado highway home movie, 8mm mountain road trip, station wagon freeway footage, and Idaho Springs road sign.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1962 Colorado or Summit County travel shots, then broader 1960s U.S. highway footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 8mm Colorado road-trip frame showing a curving highway, hillside, and green Idaho Springs exit sign. — A roadside Idaho Springs exit sign appears beside a curving mountain highway.

Colorado mountain highway seen from a moving vehicle, with wooded slopes, shoulder, and small roadside signage. — The highway curves through hills after the roadside sign passes out of view.

1962 8mm frame of a white station wagon approaching overhead signs for Grand Junction and Idaho Springs in Colorado. — A white station wagon travels toward overhead directional signs on the freeway.

Moving-vehicle view of a white station wagon on a Colorado freeway with overhead signs and mountain hills beyond. — The station wagon continues along the roadway beneath green directional signs.

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