Colorado USA-1959: Fall Foliage on Trees with Mountains

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Fall Foliage on Trees with Mountains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a serene autumn landscape in Colorado. The view, framed by dark edges suggesting a window or projector, reveals a vibrant canopy of trees with brilliant orange, red, and green foliage. Rolling mountainous terrain stretches into the distance under a bright blue sky, with a faint road winding through the valley. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century American countryside.

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: 124936963

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 1950s U.S. home-movie requests needing a quiet Colorado autumn landscape, mountain view, or seasonal nature cutaway.
Period detail: The color 8mm look, soft focus, and vignetted frame edges support a late-1950s home-movie reading, with no visible landmarks to identify the exact place.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a visitor or family camera pausing on scenery rather than staging an event, preserving a brief personal view of fall color.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include treetops in fall color, distant blue mountain ridges, bright sky, a faint valley road, utility poles, and dark frame edges.
Film character: The footage shows saturated color, visible grain, slight softness, dust specks, and uneven dark borders typical of scanned small-gauge home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an establishing insert, seasonal transition, travel-memory beat, or quiet cutaway between family or road-trip scenes.
Historical context: The scene reflects mid-century amateur travel filming of natural scenery, with attention on landscape and seasonal color rather than people or activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or prominent private property are visible, but copyright status and any location-specific property concerns should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Searches such as 1950s Colorado 8mm autumn foliage, vintage home movie mountain landscape, or fall treetops and distant ridges may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Colorado 1959 material, then broader 1950s autumn landscape or home-movie travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Colorado 8mm frame showing fall-colored treetops, distant mountain terrain, blue sky, and dark edge vignetting. — Fall foliage and distant ridges seen through dark-edged 8mm framing.

1959 Colorado home-movie frame with fall foliage in the foreground and a hazy mountain ridge across the horizon. — A hazy mountain horizon rises beyond colorful autumn woodland.

1959 Colorado 8mm still showing a wooded autumn valley, distant terrain, blue sky, and visible film dust. — Autumn woodland and distant hills appear with small dust marks in the film frame.

1959 Colorado frame with colorful treetops, a distant mountain horizon, soft focus, and dark 8mm frame edges. — Colorful treetops fill the foreground beneath a clear mountain horizon.

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