Colorado USA-1967: Grass Viewed From Car And Blue Darkness

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

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Grass Viewed From Car And Blue Darkness — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1967, this vintage home movie captures a rural landscape viewed from a moving vehicle in Colorado. The footage opens on a sun-drenched field with dry grass, scattered trees, and distant hills under a dramatic cloudy sky. As the car moves, the scene transitions into deep blue darkness, likely due to a lens cap or film damage, creating a stark contrast. The grainy texture and color shifts are characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. This authentic archival clip evokes nostalgia and is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or historical storytelling.

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: 124068958

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 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: Supports 1960s Colorado rural-road or home-movie requests needing a brief landscape view that shifts into dark blue film leader or exposure loss.
Period detail: The visible dry grassland, simple fence line, distant trees, and low roadside viewpoint may show a mid-1960s rural Colorado travel scene.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a passenger filming quickly from a moving car as scenery passes and the exposure falls away.
What appears in frame: Visible details include dry grass, a fence line, scattered trees, distant hills, clouded sky, dark frame borders, and blue obscured frames.
Film character: The 8mm image carries heavy grain, soft focus, gate edges, color shift, and abrupt blue darkness consistent with small-gauge home-movie scanning.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a rural travel insert, road-memory cutaway, or transition into blackout, dream, or damaged-film material.
Historical context: The footage offers a modest view of rural travel scenery rather than a documented landmark, event, or identifiable community activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or clear private-property identifiers are visible, but copyright and location verification still require normal archive review.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1960s Colorado 8mm rural road footage, dry grass field from car, vintage home movie landscape, and blue film darkness.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1967 Colorado travel footage, then broader rural-road or film-damage transitions.

Still Frames From This Clip

1967 Colorado home-movie view of dry grass, fence posts, trees, and distant hills from a moving vehicle. — Rural grassland and trees pass behind a roadside fence.

The 1967 Colorado 8mm view drops into deep blue darkness with only a strip of clouded sky remaining visible. — The landscape disappears into blue darkness with sky still visible above.

A mostly blue 8mm frame shows darkness, grain, and edge shadows after the rural Colorado view fades from sight. — Blue darkness fills the frame, leaving only film texture and edge shadows.

The clip ends on a dark blue 8mm frame with visible grain, black borders, and no identifiable subject. — A dark blue ending frame shows only grain and film borders.

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