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

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

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Driving Down A Mountain Road — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a first-person view of driving down a winding mountain road through Summit County, Colorado. The footage shows a narrow asphalt road flanked by steep, forested slopes under an overcast sky, with raindrops visible on the lens in later frames. The perspective suggests movement from inside a vehicle, with natural film grain and slight color fading characteristic of Super 8 footage. This archival clip evokes a sense of mid-century Americana and road-trip nostalgia, ideal for documentaries, historical content, or retro-themed projects.

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: 123759566

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 archival requests for early 1960s Colorado road travel, mountain driving, and first-person vehicle footage for documentary inserts or period travel sequences.
Period detail: The clip may show a mid-century mountain highway scene, with a narrow paved road, simple roadside markers, and undeveloped alpine slopes visible in the frames.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the unstaged value of a traveler filming forward from a moving car rather than presenting a planned scenic shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include wet asphalt, steep rocky cuts, forested mountainsides, valley slopes, roadside posts, overcast sky, raindrops on the lens, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The scan carries soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, rounded frame corners, and gate edges that reinforce its physical home-movie origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel insert, road-trip transition, mountain approach cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence about Colorado or 1960s motoring.
Historical context: The view documents automobile travel through a mountain landscape with limited roadside development and weather visible in the filming conditions.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright status and any location or roadway permissions should still be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1962 8mm Colorado mountain road, Summit County driving footage, vintage home movie road trip, and rainy mountain highway POV.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Summit County material, then broader Colorado mountain road or mid-century travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 8mm home-movie frame looking down a wet Summit County mountain road with steep slopes and an overcast sky. — A vehicle approaches a bend on a wet mountain road bordered by rocky cuts and forested slopes.

Forward 8mm view of a Summit County road through mountain terrain, with a rocky wall, valley slopes, and cloudy sky. — The road continues through a mountain valley with a steep rock face close to the shoulder.

Rain-speckled 1962 8mm frame showing a Summit County road descending between dark mountain slopes and wet ground. — Raindrops mark the lens as the road stretches into a mountain valley.

1962 Summit County driving POV with raindrops on the lens, a wet road, and green mountain slopes ahead. — The road leads forward under an overcast sky, with rain on the lens and mountains ahead.

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