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Summit County Colorado USA-1962: Winding Mountain Road Approaching Storm

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  • Year1962
  • Decade1960s
  • LocationSummit, Colorado, United States
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1962 · Summit, Colorado, United States
  • StatusDirect License

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Winding Mountain Road Approaching Storm — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a scenic drive through Summit County, Colorado. The camera moves steadily along a winding highway flanked by grassy hills and rugged mountains under a heavy, dark storm cloud. A small settlement with white homes and trees sits nestled in the valley. The footage shows classic Super 8 grain, faded colors, and a slightly overcast sky, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American road trip. The view is framed by the film's black borders, emphasizing its authentic, archival quality.

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
123759193

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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Topics & Keywords

  • highway
  • mountains
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  • vintage travel

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for requests needing 1960s Colorado mountain highway travel, storm approach atmosphere, or mid-century American road-trip establishing footage.
Period detail
The paved two-lane road, roadside posts, small valley homes, and 8mm color stock support the 1962 home-movie context without showing specific landmarks.
Home-movie behavior
The clip carries an unstaged passenger-window perspective, watching the road and settlement pass as a storm gathers over the mountains.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a curving highway, grassy valley, white houses, roadside posts, rugged hills, trees, dark storm clouds, and black film-frame borders.
Film character
The footage has soft 8mm grain, muted color, slight exposure variation, and handheld travel movement that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role
An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, weather cutaway, or memory beat within a Western road-trip sequence.
Historical context
The view places a small mountain settlement beside a highway, suggesting everyday automobile travel through rural Colorado rather than a staged scenic survey.
Research note
No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, though copyright, location verification, and any property-context questions should still be reviewed.
Research search match
Matches searches for 1962 8mm Colorado mountain highway footage, Summit County storm clouds, vintage road trip, and small valley settlement scenes.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Summit County or 1962 Colorado footage, then broader mountain-road, storm, and mid-century travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 8mm view in Summit County, Colorado, showing a highway, small valley settlement, and storm clouds over rugged hills.

A curving highway leads toward a small mountain settlement beneath a darkening sky.

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Summit County, Colorado highway scene from 1962, with roadside posts, homes, trees, hills, and a dark storm front overhead.

Roadside posts and valley homes appear as the highway bends into mountain weather.

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A 1962 8mm travel frame shows a Colorado mountain road, open valley ground, distant homes, and dark clouds over the ridgeline.

The road curves through open valley ground toward houses at the base of the mountains.

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Summit County, Colorado road-view frame from 1962, with a valley settlement, green trees, mountain slopes, and storm-darkened sky.

A small settlement sits in the valley as storm clouds hang over the surrounding hills.

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