Aspen Colorado-1961: Mount St Helena Captured From A Moving Car - Post Eruption

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationAspen, Colorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Aspen Colorado

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Mount St Helena Captured From A Moving Car - Post Eruption — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic view of Mount St. Helens from a moving car in Aspen, Colorado. Snow-capped peaks rise above dense evergreen forests under a clear blue sky, with power lines crossing the frame. The footage shows a scenic mountain landscape before the 1980 eruption, offering a rare glimpse of the volcano in its pre-eruption state. The film exhibits natural grain and color saturation typical of 8mm home movies from the early 1960s, with a handheld, observational style.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127468518

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 1208 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: #2
Reel-level year note: 1961
Reel-level location note: aspen colorado
Date: 1961 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: Aspen, 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 1960s travel, road-trip, and mountain landscape requests needing visitor-shot 8mm footage from a moving car in the Aspen, Colorado area.
Period detail: The frames may show early-1960s roadside infrastructure, overhead utility lines, snowy mountain scenery, and an open two-lane mountain road.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged traveler perspective, with the camera looking through or from a moving car toward distant peaks and roadside scenery.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include snow-capped mountains, dark evergreen slopes, overhead wires, roadside poles, a paved road, snow patches, and a roadside sign.
Film character: The 8mm image has visible grain, soft focus, saturated color, uneven exposure, and slight handheld or in-car movement consistent with home-movie filming.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a scenic insert, road-trip transition, regional establishing cutaway, or memory beat within a 1960s travel sequence.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for mid-century leisure travel through a mountain landscape, without confirming the exact peak identity from the frames alone.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any roadside property issues should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1961 8mm Colorado mountain road footage, vintage Aspen travel scenery, snow-capped peaks from car, and 1960s home movie landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1961 Aspen or Colorado travel footage, then broader 1960s mountain road and snow-peaked landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 8mm frame from the Aspen, Colorado metadata showing snowy peaks beyond forested slopes, with utility lines across the upper frame. — Snowy mountain peaks rise beyond dark evergreen hills and overhead utility lines.

A soft 8mm view of snow-covered mountains near the Aspen, Colorado location metadata, framed by dark hills and crossed by utility lines. — Distant snow-covered peaks appear between forested slopes under a pale blue sky.

1961 home-movie frame showing snow-capped mountains beyond evergreen slopes, with utility wires and roadside poles visible in the foreground. — A mountain vista is seen past utility lines and dark roadside trees.

Moving-car 8mm view of a two-lane mountain road near the Aspen, Colorado metadata location, with snow patches and distant peaks ahead. — A paved mountain road leads toward distant snow-covered peaks and roadside evergreens.

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