Colorado USA-1959: Autumn Forest With Colorful Trees Stretching Across Miles

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Autumn Forest With Colorful Trees Stretching Across Miles — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping autumn landscape in Colorado. The view, framed by dark window edges, reveals rolling hills and distant mountains under a clear blue sky. Vibrant trees in shades of red, orange, and yellow dominate the foreground, their colors rich and saturated. The footage shows subtle camera movement, likely from a moving vehicle, with natural film grain and slight color shifts characteristic of Super 8 footage. This nostalgic clip evokes a sense of peaceful travel and the beauty of the American West in the late 1950s.

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: 124936959

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 1704 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: 1
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: colorado
Date: 1959 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for requests needing late-1950s Colorado travel footage, autumn landscape inserts, or archival color material showing the American West from a home-movie perspective.
Period detail: The visible cues are mostly natural scenery, with 1959 supported by the clip metadata rather than by identifiable objects in the frame.
Home-movie behavior: The framing through dark vehicle or window edges gives the clip an unstaged traveler viewpoint rather than a composed scenic postcard shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue sky, distant mountain ridges, rolling wooded hills, autumn trees, dark frame edges, and a roadside or vertical post near the trees.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows saturated color, soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and gentle camera movement consistent with amateur home-movie filming.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, travel transition, seasonal establishing insert, or reflective memory beat in a mid-century road-trip sequence.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for leisure travel and scenic observation in Colorado, while avoiding claims about a specific landmark or route.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable property identifiers are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any location or property concerns for their project.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 Colorado 8mm autumn landscape, vintage home movie mountain view, fall forest travel footage, and mid-century scenic road trip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1959 Colorado footage, then broader vintage autumn forest or American West travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Colorado home-movie view of autumn woods, rolling hills, and distant mountain ridges framed by dark edges. — Autumn forest and distant ridges viewed from a shaded frame edge.

Colorado autumn landscape with wooded hills, colorful trees, and a distant blue ridge in a 1959 8mm frame. — Colorful trees and distant mountain ridges under clear sky.

Vintage Colorado 8mm frame showing fall foliage, wooded hills, and a hazy distant ridge under open sky. — Fall foliage fills the foreground beneath a distant ridge line.

1959 Colorado home-movie frame of autumn woodland, distant hills, and dark edge framing from a traveler viewpoint. — Autumn woodland and distant hills framed by dark edges.

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