Summit County Colorado USA-1962: A Rainy Drive Through Mountain Valleys

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

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A Rainy Drive Through Mountain Valleys — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a rainy drive through Summit County, Colorado. Viewed from a moving vehicle, the footage shows a wet asphalt road winding through lush green fields and dense forests, with snow-capped mountains rising in the distance under a heavy, overcast sky. Raindrops streak the lens, adding to the moody, atmospheric feel of this authentic 1960s road trip scene. The grainy texture and color palette are characteristic of Super 8 film, offering a nostalgic glimpse of rural Colorado life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123759374

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

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s documentary or editorial needs showing a rainy mountain-road journey through rural Colorado from a moving car.
Period detail: The footage may show early-1960s rural road conditions, roadside posts, open fields, and mountain-valley scenery consistent with the supplied Summit County, Colorado metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged traveler perspective, with the camera looking through rain-spattered glass during a brief drive rather than composing a formal landscape view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include wet asphalt, roadside fences, white marker posts, green pasture, dark forested slopes, low clouds, distant snowy peaks, and rain on the lens or windshield.
Film character: The 8mm color scan has soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, exposure variation, and handheld vehicle movement that support its physical home-movie origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short travel insert, weather transition, regional establishing cutaway, or reflective memory beat within a road-trip sequence.
Historical context: The clip gives visual context for midcentury recreational or family travel through a mountain valley without documenting a named town, landmark, or event.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property or road-use context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1962 8mm Colorado mountain road, rainy Summit County drive, vintage home movie road trip, wet highway valley, and 1960s rural Colorado scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1962 Summit County or Colorado travel footage, then with rainy road, mountain valley, and family trip material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Summit County, Colorado home-movie view of a wet road, pasture, fence posts, and mountains under heavy clouds. — A rain-darkened road leads through open pasture toward forested mountain slopes.

Moving-car view of a wet Summit County road with green fields, roadside markers, forested slopes, and distant mountains. — The road continues into a mountain valley with rain marks visible across the frame.

Rain-speckled 8mm frame of a wet mountain road, roadside signs, open field, and dark hills in Summit County, Colorado. — Roadside markers pass close to the camera as the vehicle moves along the rain-soaked road.

Final frame of the rainy 1962 mountain drive, showing a wet road, pasture, roadside posts, and cloud-covered peaks. — The road curves through open green land toward mountains partly obscured by weather.

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