Summit County Colorado USA-1962: Cars Driving Down The Mountain Road

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

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Cars Driving Down The Mountain Road — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a scenic drive through Summit County, Colorado. The camera moves along a winding mountain road, offering views of steep forested slopes and a small settlement nestled in the valley below. White posts line the roadside, and the footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation. The perspective suggests travel by car, with the frame's dark borders indicating a home movie origin. This archival clip evokes mid-century Americana and outdoor adventure.

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: 123759741

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: Useful for 1960s documentary edits needing Colorado mountain-road travel, roadside landscape, or mid-century home-movie driving footage.
Period detail: The clip may show early-1960s roadway conditions, white roadside posts, sparse mountain development, and color 8mm travel filming in Summit County, Colorado.
Home-movie behavior: The value is the passenger-like viewpoint of a family or visitor filming from a moving car rather than a staged scenic setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a winding paved road, gravel shoulder, white roadside posts, steep forested slopes, rocky cuts, valley buildings, and dark film gate edges.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, motion blur, and dark frame borders that preserve its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel insert, mountain-road transition, geographic establishing beat, or memory fragment within a Colorado or road-trip sequence.
Historical context: The scene gives visual context for recreational automobile travel through a mountainous Colorado valley without identifying specific landmarks or events.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any incidental property depiction separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1962 8mm Colorado mountain road driving, Summit County home movie, vintage car travel, and Rocky Mountain roadside footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel scenes, then other 1962 Summit County footage, then broader vintage mountain driving and Colorado travel clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 8mm view from a moving car on a Summit County, Colorado mountain road with roadside posts, slopes, and valley buildings. — A passenger view looks down a mountain roadside toward a valley settlement.

Summit County, Colorado road scene filmed on 8mm in 1962, showing a curving mountain road, white posts, and valley structures below. — The road bends along a steep slope with a small settlement visible in the valley.

A 1962 home-movie frame from Summit County, Colorado showing a curving road, white posts, rocky hillside, and mountain backdrop. — The moving-car view follows the road around a bend in the mountain landscape.

End frame of a 1962 Summit County, Colorado 8mm road view, with a curving mountain road, roadside posts, and forested slopes. — White posts mark the roadside as the mountain road curves through the valley edge.

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