Summit County Colorado USA-1962: Dangerous Mountain Top Drive In Winter

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

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Dangerous Mountain Top Drive In Winter — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic winter drive through Summit County, Colorado. The camera, likely mounted in a moving vehicle, follows a winding asphalt road bordered by snow-covered guardrails. Snow blankets the rugged mountain peaks and dense evergreen forests under an overcast sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering a nostalgic glimpse of a perilous mountain journey. This authentic archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, and nostalgic content about mid-century American 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: 123760085

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: 1960s 8mm winter mountain-road footage for documentary inserts on American auto travel, alpine weather, or hazardous rural driving conditions.
Period detail: The clip may show a mid-century paved mountain road with simple roadside posts, snowbanks, evergreen forest, and undeveloped alpine slopes in Summit County, Colorado.
Home-movie behavior: The moving-vehicle viewpoint gives the scene an unstaged traveler perspective, recording the road and winter landscape as encountered during the drive.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wet or dark asphalt road, snow-covered shoulders, roadside posts, evergreen trees, distant white peaks, and a cloudy winter sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, muted winter color, gate edges, and slight exposure variation consistent with home-movie film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel insert, transition, road cutaway, or memory beat before a mountain destination or winter journey sequence.
Historical context: The footage provides visual context for recreational or regional mountain travel in snowy Colorado terrain without showing identifiable people or vehicles.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in the supplied frames, but copyright, location identification, and road-use context still need normal review.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1960s 8mm Colorado mountain road, Summit County winter drive, snowy alpine highway home movie, and vintage mountain travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Summit County material, then broader 1960s winter road or mountain travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Summit County, Colorado 8mm frame showing a snowy roadside, dark forested slopes, and distant white mountain ridges under cloud. — A winter mountain road runs past snowbanks and roadside posts toward forested slopes and high peaks.

1962 Summit County, Colorado frame from a moving car, looking along a snowy mountain road toward forested slopes and a white peak. — The road curves along snow-covered terrain with a mountain peak rising beyond the trees.

1962 Summit County, Colorado 8mm view down a winter mountain road bordered by snowbanks, roadside posts, and evergreen forest. — A dark paved road leads downhill through snowy forest toward rounded mountain ridges.

1962 Summit County, Colorado frame showing a snow-lined road, sparse roadside posts, evergreen trees, and pale mountain slopes ahead. — The road bends through snow-covered mountain terrain with evergreens and high ridges in the distance.

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