Summit County Colorado USA-1962: Driving Down A Lonely Road On A Rainy Day

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

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Driving Down A Lonely Road On A Rainy Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a journey down a wet, lonely road through a mountain valley in Summit County, Colorado. Viewed from inside a vehicle, the footage shows raindrops on the window and a winding asphalt road flanked by lush green hills under an overcast sky. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and natural motion convey a nostalgic, authentic feel of a mid-century American road trip. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects exploring 1960s Americana and travel.

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: 123759580

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: Supports requests for early 1960s Colorado road-travel footage, especially documentary or editorial sequences needing a rainy mountain driving view from a home-movie source.
Period detail: The clip may show a mid-century rural mountain highway, with a narrow wet asphalt road, simple lane markings, and undeveloped valley scenery visible through the windshield.
Home-movie behavior: The value is the passenger or driver viewpoint of an ordinary road trip, with the camera observing weather, road surface, and landscape rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a rain-specked vehicle window, wet paved road, pale lane markings, green mountain slopes, valley floor, small water channels, overcast sky, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, gate borders, and exposure shifts that help identify it as scanned physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel insert, weather transition, road-trip cutaway, or reflective memory beat between broader 1960s Americana scenes.
Historical context: The footage gives a quiet view of automobile travel through a Colorado mountain valley before later development is visible in the frame.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any location or property implications for their use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1962 8mm Colorado mountain road, rainy windshield driving, Summit County travel footage, and vintage home movie road trip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1962 Summit County material, and then with rainy road, mountain travel, or 1960s Americana clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Summit County, Colorado home-movie frame showing a wet road receding through a green mountain valley under overcast light. — Rain-specked windshield view down a wet mountain road in Summit County, Colorado.

A wet paved road stretches ahead through a Colorado mountain valley, with raindrops and film gate borders visible in the 8mm frame. — The road continues through a rainy mountain valley with water visible near the roadside.

Home-movie footage from Summit County shows a rain-damp road, green hillsides, and a pale sky viewed from inside a moving vehicle. — A damp road and green hillsides fill the view from the moving vehicle.

The final frame shows the rainy road stretching into a green Colorado valley, with soft 8mm color and visible frame borders. — Wet pavement leads toward distant slopes under a cloudy sky.

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