Summit County Colorado USA-1962: A Bus Riding Down The Street While Raining

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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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A Bus Riding Down The Street While Raining — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a rainy drive through Summit County, Colorado. The view from inside a vehicle shows a winding mountain road slick with rain, flanked by evergreen trees and misty peaks. Raindrops streak the windshield, and a wiper blade occasionally sweeps across the frame. The footage has a grainy, nostalgic quality, evoking a sense of isolation and quiet travel through a rugged, overcast landscape.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Interior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123759855

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 editorial sequences needing rainy mountain-road travel, bus or vehicle-window perspective, and isolated Colorado high-country atmosphere.
Period detail: The 8mm home-movie view may show early-1960s road travel through Summit County, with a wet two-lane mountain road, evergreen slopes, and a simple windshield-wiper view.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged passenger or driver-side view from inside a moving vehicle, emphasizing ordinary travel through rain rather than a composed scenic stop.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a slick curving road, windshield edges, a wiper blade, evergreen trees, misty mountain slopes, snow patches, road markings, and heavy overcast light.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, muted color, slight exposure variation, gate edges, and windshield blur that give the travel view a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an insert, travel transition, weather cutaway, or reflective memory beat between Colorado mountain, road-trip, or isolation scenes.
Historical context: The scene documents a rainy mountain-road passage in Summit County as seen from a vehicle, with landscape and road conditions carrying the historical context.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in these frames, but copyright, location identification, and contextual use should still be reviewed by the buyer.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1962 8mm Colorado rain drive, Summit County mountain road home movie, rainy windshield travel, and vintage bus or vehicle road footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Summit County travel footage, then broader rainy mountain-road or vehicle-window home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 8mm view from inside a vehicle on a rainy Summit County mountain road with trees, mist, and windshield framing. — A rain-slick road curves through evergreen slopes under misty mountain light.

Vehicle-window view of a wet Summit County road in 1962, with evergreen trees, misted peaks, and dark interior framing. — The vehicle continues along a damp mountain road bordered by trees and low cloud.

Soft 8mm frame of a rainy Summit County road, with the vehicle view looking toward evergreens and clouded mountain slopes. — Moisture and film softness blur the view as the road bends through the mountains.

A windshield wiper sweeps across the 1962 Summit County road view, with wet pavement, trees, and misty mountains ahead. — A wiper blade cuts across the frame during the rainy mountain drive.

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