Summit County Colorado USA-1962: Scenic Drive Through Mountain Town With Houses Near Hill

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

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Scenic Drive Through Mountain Town With Houses Near Hill — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a scenic drive through Summit County, Colorado. The footage shows a winding road flanked by grassy hills and a small mountain town nestled against a forested mountainside. Houses with varied rooflines are scattered across the landscape, with a prominent dark building complex visible on a slope. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and a slightly overcast sky, offering authentic archival footage of mid-century American life in the Rockies.

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: 123759205

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 1960s Colorado mountain-town travel footage, scenic road approaches, and mid-century Rocky Mountain community establishing shots.
Period detail: The frames may show early-1960s roadside development, small houses, utility poles, and hillside construction or mining-related structures in Summit County.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a passenger or traveler viewpoint, observing a mountain town from a moving road without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a paved road, grassy roadside, clustered houses, forested hills, exposed earth slopes, utility poles, and dark hillside buildings.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, visible grain, muted color, slight gate edges, and handheld movement typical of home-movie travel footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, road-trip transition, regional cutaway, or memory beat before a mountain-town sequence.
Historical context: The footage provides visual context for roadside settlement and mountain-town housing in Colorado without documenting a specific named landmark.
Research note: No people or logos are visible, but houses and built structures appear, so property and copyright questions should be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1960s Summit County Colorado 8mm, mountain town drive, Colorado houses near hillside, and vintage Rocky Mountains road footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with Summit County or 1962 Colorado material, then with broader mountain-road home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Summit County road view with a paved highway, roadside grass, small houses, and forested Colorado hills in the distance. — Roadside approach to a mountain town beneath wooded hills.

Summit County, Colorado houses and utility poles sit below a forested hillside with dark structures and exposed earth on the slope. — Homes and hillside structures seen from the moving road.

1962 mountain-town view in Summit County showing clustered homes, roadside utility poles, trees, and a hillside with exposed earth. — Town rooftops and utility poles below a wooded slope.

End frame of the 1962 Summit County clip with rooftops, a roadside tree, dark hillside buildings, and forested Colorado mountains. — Rooftops and hillside buildings framed against forested mountains.

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