Colorado US-1967: The Entrance Sign For Mesa Verde National Park In Southwest

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Year1967
Decade1960s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1967 Colorado

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The Entrance Sign For Mesa Verde National Park In Southwest — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1967, this vintage home movie captures the iconic entrance sign for Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. Filmed from a moving vehicle, the clip shows the stone sign nestled among pine trees and rugged Southwest terrain, with distant mesas under a bright blue sky. The footage features natural film grain, warm color tones, and a nostalgic, authentic feel, offering a glimpse into mid-century American travel and historic preservation. Ideal for documentaries, editorial content, and archival projects exploring American heritage and national parks.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124066344

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 1105 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: cb&Q RR kolor karavan tour southwestern colorado
Reel-level year note: 1967
Reel-level location note: colorado
Date: 1967 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: 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: 1967 8mm travel footage suited to documentary or educational requests for mid-century visits to Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado.
Period detail: The moving-vehicle view, stone park entrance sign, and color 8mm texture support the described 1967 home-movie travel context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves a visitor-shot approach to a national park entrance, filmed casually from a vehicle rather than staged for promotion.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the Mesa Verde entrance sign, roadside gravel, evergreen trees, scrubby terrain, distant hills, and the dark edge of the filming vehicle or window.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm grain, warm color, uneven exposure, and brief motion blur from filming while passing the sign.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, road-trip transition, or memory beat before material about Mesa Verde, national parks, or Southwestern travel.
Historical context: The frames show a mid-century tourist approach to a federally managed park landscape, with the entrance marker set into a dry wooded roadside.
Research note: No people are visible, but the park name and entrance marker are identifiable, so users should review trademark, location, and copyright needs separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1960s 8mm Mesa Verde entrance sign, Colorado national park home movie, and vintage Southwest road trip footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel travel shots, then other 1967 Mesa Verde or Colorado footage, then broader national park and Southwest road-trip material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Dark-framed 1967 8mm view from a moving vehicle approaching the Mesa Verde National Park entrance area in Colorado. — A dark vehicle edge dominates the frame as the roadside entrance area comes into view.

1967 8mm view of the Mesa Verde National Park entrance sign along a gravel roadside in Colorado. — The Mesa Verde National Park entrance sign appears beside the road in dry wooded terrain.

The 1967 home-movie camera passes the Mesa Verde National Park sign from a vehicle on the roadside. — The sign slides lower in frame as the vehicle moves past the park entrance.

Close 1967 8mm passing view of the Mesa Verde National Park entrance sign in a wooded Colorado roadside setting. — The entrance sign fills the right side of the frame as the vehicle continues past it.

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