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Colorado USA-1939: Lone Dirt Road Cuts Through The Woods And Goes Up Towards The Mountains

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

  • Year1939
  • Decade1930s
  • LocationColorado, United States
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1933 Colorado

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

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Lone Dirt Road Cuts Through The Woods And Goes Up... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a lone dirt road winding through a dense forest in Colorado. The camera moves forward, revealing the winding path cutting through pine trees and rolling hills under a moody, overcast sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and a distinct purple-blue color cast typical of early color film. This authentic slice of Americana offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century rural life and natural landscapes.

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
124761832

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 record not linked for this clip
Date
1939 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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

Open Clip Documentation RecordRequest source information

Topics & Keywords

  • dirt
  • road
  • mountains
  • woods
  • forest
  • nature
  • lone
  • cuts
  • colorado USA
  • 1939
  • 1939 home movie footage
  • vintage 8mm film
  • dirt road through forest
  • mountain landscape
  • Super 8 home movie
  • retro film
  • archival footage
  • old film
  • nature scenery
  • rural America
  • 1930s travel
  • classic film
  • film grain
  • nostalgic footage
  • vintage road trip
  • mountain road
  • forest path
  • 8mm home movie
  • vintage Americana

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1930s Colorado home-movie requests needing a rural mountain-road insert, travel transition, or wooded landscape cutaway.
Period detail
The footage may show a narrow unpaved road through pine-covered hills, consistent with metadata identifying Colorado in 1939.
Home-movie behavior
The forward-looking view feels like an unstaged traveler perspective from a moving vehicle or roadside vantage, with no people posed for camera.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a pale dirt road, dense dark trees, wooded hillsides, mountain slope, overcast sky, and heavy film-frame borders.
Film character
The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, gate edges, and a purple-blue color cast that reads as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role
An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, road-travel transition, rural memory beat, or cutaway between mountain and forest scenes.
Historical context
The clip visually suggests early automobile-era leisure or travel through a rural Colorado landscape without documenting a specific event or landmark.
Research note
No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any location or property concerns should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match
Matches searches for 1939 8mm Colorado road footage, rural mountain forest home movies, Depression-era travel scenery, and vintage dirt road inserts.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with the same reel, then with Colorado or 1939 travel footage, and then with broader wooded-road, mountain-landscape, or rural Americana material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Colorado 8mm frame showing a narrow dirt road winding through dense trees toward wooded hills.
A dirt road cuts through shadowed forest and hillside terrain.
1939 Colorado home-movie view of a winding dirt road bordered by trees and a forested mountain slope.
The road bends through trees below a wooded slope.
Soft 1939 Colorado 8mm frame of a pale rural road passing through dense woods toward hills.
A pale rural road stands out against the dark forest.
1939 Colorado frame showing a lone dirt road receding through forested mountain terrain.
The road recedes into a wooded Colorado landscape.

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