Colorado USA-1967: Blue Sky Over Lake And Mountains Then Night

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

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Blue Sky Over Lake And Mountains Then Night — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1967, this vintage home movie captures a scenic landscape in Colorado. The clip opens with a wide view of a blue lake nestled between rugged mountains under a bright sky with scattered clouds. The foreground shows a rocky, grassy slope. The footage then transitions to darkness, ending with a brief, blurry close-up of a textured surface, possibly a lens cap or film damage. The grainy, color-bleached quality and natural lighting evoke a nostalgic, archival feel.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124069988

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: Useful for 1960s Colorado home-movie requests needing a brief scenic lake-and-mountain view or a natural fade into darkness for documentary context.
Period detail: The 8mm color, soft focus, uneven exposure and casual scenic framing support a late-1960s home-movie reading without identifying a specific landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a traveler pausing on a rocky slope to record a lake view, then letting the shot drift or end in darkness.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blue lake, rugged mountain ridges, pale clouds, rocky foreground, grasses, dark film edges and a blurred dark close-up.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, color fading, rounded frame edges, slight blur and exposure shifts that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short scenic insert, place-setting cutaway, memory beat, or transitional moment from daytime landscape into darkness.
Historical context: As visitor-shot landscape footage, it reflects mid-century recreational filming of western scenery rather than a documented public event.
Research note: No people, logos or private property are visible, but copyright, location identification and any broader use context still require normal review.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1960s 8mm Colorado lake mountains, vintage home movie landscape, blue sky over water, and archival travel scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1967 Colorado material, then broader 1960s mountain lake or road-trip footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1967 Colorado 8mm frame showing a blue lake, distant mountain ridge, scattered clouds and rocky foreground vegetation. — A wide lake and mountain view seen from a rocky slope.

1967 Colorado home-movie view of water, rugged hills and a rocky grassy foreground beneath scattered clouds. — The lake remains in view as the camera holds on the mountain landscape.

Dark transitional 8mm frame with faint blurred texture near the bottom, likely the camera ending the landscape shot. — The scene drops into a dark, indistinct frame.

End frame from the 1967 8mm clip, showing a dark close-up with faint pale texture and visible film grain. — A blurred dark end frame follows the scenic view.

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