Summit County Colorado USA-1962: A Gorgeous View Of A Little City While On A

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

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A Gorgeous View Of A Little City While On A — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a scenic view of a small mountain town in Summit County, Colorado. The footage shows a cluster of houses and buildings nestled at the base of a densely forested hill, with a prominent industrial structure on the slope. The camera pans slightly, revealing a winding road through a mountain pass with a Route 6 sign visible. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and natural light, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American road trip atmosphere.

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: 123759249

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s 8mm home-movie footage useful for documentary or educational requests needing a mountain-town road-trip view in Summit County, Colorado.
Period detail: The frames show mid-century roadside travel clues including a U.S. Route 6 sign, small buildings, a mountain road, and an industrial structure on a forested slope.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot road-trip viewpoint, shifting from a town overlook to a moving-road perspective through a mountain pass.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include forested hills, small buildings, a road, utility poles, an industrial hillside structure, a mountain pass, roadside markers, and a Route 6 sign.
Film character: The 8mm image carries visible grain, soft focus, slight color shift, uneven exposure, and handheld framing consistent with home-movie travel footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, mountain-town cutaway, or memory beat within a mid-century Colorado sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually places roadside travel and small-town mountain settlement beside industrial hillside activity without identifying the specific facility.
Research note: No people are visible, but the Route 6 road sign and unidentified structures should be reviewed for trademark, location, and property-context concerns separately from copyright.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1960s Colorado 8mm road trip, Summit County mountain town home movie, Route 6 mountain pass footage, and vintage Rocky Mountain roadside view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Summit County or Colorado footage from 1962, then broader 1960s mountain road-trip and town-overlook material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Summit County, Colorado home-movie frame showing houses, a road, trees, and a dark industrial structure on a wooded hillside. — Small mountain-town buildings sit below a forested slope with a prominent industrial structure.

Summit County, Colorado travel footage frame with small buildings below a wooded hill and a dark structure set into the slope. — The camera holds on the town edge and hillside structure beneath a wooded mountain ridge.

1962 8mm frame of a Summit County mountain-town overlook with houses, trees, roadways, and a hillside industrial feature. — A slightly shifted view shows houses and roadside details beneath the wooded slope.

1962 Colorado road-trip frame showing a two-lane mountain road through a pass, roadside markers, vehicles, and a Route 6 sign. — The view changes to a mountain road through a pass, with a Route 6 sign at the roadside.

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