Denver Colorado-1949: Prototype Car Doing Wheelies

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Year1949
Decade1940s
LocationDenver, Colorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Prototype Car Doing Wheelies — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1949, this vintage home movie captures a red prototype car performing wheelies on a grassy field in Denver, Colorado. The experimental vehicle, with its unusual multi-wheel design, lifts its front end high as it maneuvers across the field. In the background, empty stadium-style bleachers rise under a hazy sky. The footage shows natural film grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic imperfections of a 1940s home movie, offering a rare glimpse of early automotive experimentation and playful engineering.

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: 124751733

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 1305 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: trail ridge
Reel-level year note: 1950-1949
Reel-level location note: iowa,kansas city,truman home,colorado,central city,
Date: 1949 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: Denver, 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 1940s editorial or documentary requests needing home-movie footage of experimental automobile stunts in Denver, Colorado.
Period detail: The open field, stadium-style bleachers, 8mm color stock, and rounded custom vehicle body support a late-1940s automotive demonstration setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of an amateur spectator filming a brief stunt attempt as the unusual car lifts and settles in front of distant bleachers.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red multi-wheel vehicle, people riding in it, a grassy field, stadium bleachers, low fencing, and heavy film gate edges.
Film character: Soft focus, muted color, visible grain, dust specks, and contact-sheet framing give the footage a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, comic transition, or visual cutaway for odd inventions, vehicle experiments, or midcentury leisure scenes.
Historical context: The footage shows a small public or recreational field setting where a homemade or prototype vehicle appears to perform a wheelie-like maneuver.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed even though no logos or private property are apparent in these frames.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1949 Denver 8mm home movie, prototype car wheelie, experimental automobile stunt, and vintage field demonstration footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Denver material, then other 1949 Colorado footage, then broader clips of unusual vehicles, stunts, and midcentury transportation.

Still Frames From This Clip

1949 Denver home-movie frame showing a red experimental car traveling on grass before distant stadium bleachers. — A red custom vehicle crosses the field with riders visible against empty bleachers.

1949 Denver 8mm frame of the red prototype-style car lifting its front end during a wheelie-like stunt. — The vehicle pitches upward as its front wheels rise off the grass.

The Denver home-movie frame shows the experimental car still reared back during the stunt, with bleachers in the background. — The custom vehicle holds a steep angle during the wheelie-like maneuver.

At the end of the 1949 Denver clip, the red experimental vehicle appears level again on the grass before the bleachers. — The vehicle returns to a level position and continues across the field.

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