Colorado USA-1938: Person Sitting On Rock By Lake With Mountain View

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1933 Colorado

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Person Sitting On Rock By Lake With Mountain View — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a person sitting on a rocky slope beside a lake in Colorado. The individual, wearing a light-colored top, gazes toward the water as the camera holds a steady view of the rugged terrain. The scene transitions to a wide landscape shot of a mountain lake surrounded by evergreen forests and snow-dusted peaks under a cloudy sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 color shifts and grain, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of mid-20th century American nature travel.

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: 124761036

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: 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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1938 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Colorado, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s Colorado travel, outdoor recreation, and mountain-lake atmosphere in documentary, museum, or education edits.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1930s vacation footage, with a seated visitor in simple outdoor clothing and a mountain lake filmed on 8mm color stock.
Home-movie behavior: The human value comes from an unstaged traveler pausing on rocks near moving water before the reel shifts to a scenic landscape view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a seated person, sloped rocks, rushing water, a lake, evergreen forest, distant mountains, snow patches, and cloudy sky.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, blue-purple color shift, uneven exposure, and slight frame-edge darkness typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a memory beat, nature-travel insert, or transition from a personal outdoor moment to a wider mountain landscape.
Historical context: The footage places a private traveler within a Colorado mountain setting, suggesting recreational nature travel without identifying the exact site.
Research note: A visible face may require likeness review, while copyright, location, and any property questions should be assessed separately before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 Colorado 8mm home movie, vintage mountain lake footage, seated traveler by rocks, and 1930s American nature travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Colorado travel scenes, then other 1938 Colorado landscapes, then broader vintage mountain-lake home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Colorado home-movie frame showing a person seated on a rocky slope beside rushing water. — A seated traveler pauses on rocks near moving water in the mountain setting.

A seated person remains on the rocks near rushing water in Colorado archival 8mm footage. — The camera holds on the seated figure beside the rocky stream area.

Wide 1938 Colorado landscape view of a lake, evergreen forest, and distant snow-dusted mountains. — A wide mountain-lake view opens beyond forested slopes and rocky peaks.

Archival Colorado 8mm frame showing a lake below forested slopes and a rugged mountain ridge. — The landscape view holds on the lake and surrounding mountains beneath a bright cloudy sky.

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