Colorado USA-1967: Train Derails In The Mountains

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

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Train Derails In The Mountains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1967, this vintage home movie captures a train derailment in the Colorado mountains. The footage, filmed from a moving train, shows a derailed car lying off the tracks amidst rocky terrain and dense green foliage. The scene is bathed in a distinct purple and blue color cast, characteristic of aged Super 8 film, with visible grain and slight motion blur. A person in a light-colored shirt briefly appears, observing the accident. This archival clip offers a raw, nostalgic glimpse of a transportation mishap in a rugged, natural setting.

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: 124067489

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 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: Useful for 1960s editorial or documentary sequences needing home-movie evidence of a mountain rail derailment in Colorado.
Period detail: The 8mm color footage may show a 1967 passenger-train viewpoint, with period rail equipment glimpsed through aged film color and motion blur.
Home-movie behavior: The camera records from a moving train rather than a staged vantage, catching a brief passenger-side look at the damaged rail scene.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a derailed rail car, rocky trackside ground, dense green foliage, a moving train edge, a passenger in a light shirt, and heavy frame blur.
Film character: The clip has strong 8mm texture, blue-purple color shift, soft focus, grain, uneven exposure, and handheld movement from the passing train.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, incident cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition into a rail safety or mountain transport sequence.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for rail travel through rugged Colorado terrain and the way travelers documented unexpected events from passenger windows.
Research note: People are briefly visible, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, accident context, and any rail-property questions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1960s 8mm Colorado train derailment, mountain rail accident home movie, and vintage passenger-train wreck footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then with 1967 Colorado rail material, then with broader train wreck or mountain transportation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1967 Colorado 8mm frame showing a derailed rail car off the track in rocky mountain terrain, viewed from a moving train. — A derailed rail car appears beside rocks and dense foliage as the camera passes from another train.

Motion-blurred 8mm view from a moving train in Colorado, with foliage and rail-side forms streaking through the frame. — The passing train creates heavy blur across foliage and trackside shapes.

A heavily blurred 1967 Colorado 8mm frame shows trackside greenery and the edge of the moving train with strong blue-purple film shift. — Trackside foliage and the train edge smear across the frame as the camera moves past the scene.

1967 Colorado 8mm frame with a passenger in a light shirt at the train edge, looking toward a derailed rail car in rocky foliage. — A passenger is briefly visible as the camera passes the derailed rail car in mountain terrain.

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