Summit County Colorado USA-1962: A Car Driving Leisurely Down A Mountain Road

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

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A Car Driving Leisurely Down A Mountain Road — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a car driving down a winding mountain road in Summit County, Colorado. The view is from inside a vehicle, looking out through a window frame, with a wet asphalt road curving through a lush, forested valley. A yellow diamond-shaped warning sign and a white Route 6 marker are visible along the roadside. Oncoming traffic approaches in the opposite lane under an overcast sky, with natural film grain and color saturation typical of Super 8 footage. This authentic archival clip evokes mid-century American road trips and scenic travel.

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: 123759271

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: Supports requests for 1960s 8mm Colorado road travel, mountain highway driving, and documentary inserts about mid-century American car trips.
Period detail: The visible paved two-lane road, roadside warning sign, white route marker, and 8mm color stock may show early-1960s highway travel in Summit County, Colorado.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged passenger-view perspective from inside a moving car, recording the road ahead as a travel memory rather than a formal scenic shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wet mountain road, yellow centerlines, rocky forested slopes, a yellow diamond warning sign, roadside posts, oncoming cars, and dark window framing.
Film character: The scan shows soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight blur from vehicle motion, rounded frame edges, and exposure shifts that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use this as a travel insert, road-transition shot, scenic cutaway, or memory beat between family-trip or mountain-location sequences.
Historical context: The footage documents automobile travel through a mountain valley, showing roadside infrastructure and scenic highway views from a private home-movie viewpoint.
Research note: No people are visible, but the route marker and road signs should be reviewed for identification context; copyright and location/property issues require separate clearance checks.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1962 Colorado 8mm mountain road, Summit County highway drive, vintage home movie road trip, and wet two-lane mountain pass.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Summit County or Colorado road footage, then broader 1960s mountain travel and driving scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Summit County, Colorado 8mm view from inside a car looking down a wet two-lane mountain road between rocky slopes. — Passenger-view frame of a wet mountain highway with oncoming traffic and dark window borders.

Passenger-view 8mm frame of a wet Summit County mountain road, yellow roadside sign, and oncoming traffic under an overcast sky. — The road curves through a narrow mountain valley with a yellow warning sign and approaching cars.

1962 Colorado home-movie frame showing a wet two-lane mountain road, roadside sign, guard posts, and valley slopes from a moving car. — A yellow diamond sign stands near the road edge as the highway descends through the mountain valley.

Passenger-view 8mm frame in Summit County, Colorado with a yellow warning sign, white route marker, wet road, and approaching traffic. — Road signs and oncoming cars mark the wet two-lane highway as it passes between mountain slopes.

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