Colorado USA-1963: Night Drive Past Houses and Water

$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.

Year1963
Decade1960s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1963 Colorado

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Night Drive Past Houses and Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1963, this vintage home movie captures a nighttime drive through an unknown Colorado town. The grainy, blue-tinted footage shows a car moving along a dark street, passing dimly lit houses and buildings. Reflections shimmer on a body of water in the foreground, while the camera remains steady, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century American life. The low-light conditions and film grain create a moody, authentic atmosphere.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125499026

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 1954 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: prom
Reel-level year note: 1963
Reel-level location note: denver colorado
Date: 1963 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 1960s Colorado home-movie night driving footage as an atmospheric documentary insert or period transition.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century residential or small-town roadside structures seen only as dim lights and silhouettes from a moving car.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the casual passenger viewpoint, with the camera holding on darkness, passing lights, and water reflections rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark road edges, distant house or building lights, water reflections, vehicle movement blur, deep shadows, and heavy 8mm frame grain.
Film character: Blue-tinted low-light exposure, coarse grain, soft focus, gate edges, and slight scan flicker give the footage a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a nighttime travel insert, memory beat, transitional cutaway, or quiet establishing fragment for a mid-century journey.
Historical context: The footage offers a restrained view of nighttime mobility and residential roadside atmosphere in Colorado, without enough detail to identify the town.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and possible private-property context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1963 Colorado 8mm night drive, vintage home movie water reflections, dark residential street footage, and 1960s car travel at night.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then with confirmed 1963 Colorado scenes, and then with night driving, water reflection, or town street footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1963 Colorado 8mm frame showing a dark roadside or shoreline view with faint building lights and soft reflections below. — Dim lights and reflections appear through heavy grain during the nighttime drive.

A blue-tinted 8mm frame shows a bright horizontal line of lights or shoreline detail above dark reflective water. — A narrow band of light passes above dark water in the moving night scene.

Nighttime 8mm frame from Colorado showing bright blurred forms near a dark road or shoreline with reflected light below. — Small bright shapes and reflections mark the roadside view from the moving car.

Low-light 8mm frame showing faint horizontal lights and dark reflective water near the end of the night drive clip. — Faint light streaks skim across the darkness and reflect near the bottom of the frame.

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