Aspen Colorado-1961: Man On Ski Lift Going Backwards

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationAspen, Colorado, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Aspen Colorado

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Man On Ski Lift Going Backwards — Clip Details

A man in a gray sweater with a red and white V-neck collar rides a vintage orange ski lift in Aspen, Colorado, in 1961. He sits in a yellow-covered chair as the lift moves backward along the snowy mountain slope. The 8mm film captures the scene with warm, faded colors and classic Super 8 grain, showing other skiers and a snowy forest backdrop. The footage has a nostalgic, home movie quality, documenting a unique moment of winter recreation from the early 1960s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127468943

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Early 1960s Aspen winter recreation footage for documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits needing a brief vintage ski-lift moment with visible riders.
Period detail: The orange lift structure, simple chair seating, winter clothing, and 8mm color texture support a 1961 ski-area setting in Aspen as provided by the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged visitor-shot view of a man awkwardly riding or being moved backward on a ski lift while nearby skiers and lift staff or visitors watch.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a yellow-covered lift chair, orange metal lift tower, snowy ground, skiers with poles, winter coats, bare trees, and dark vertical film-frame edges.
Film character: The footage has warm faded color, soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and handheld framing typical of scanned 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, comic winter-sports cutaway, transition within a ski-trip sequence, or memory beat about midcentury leisure travel.
Historical context: The clip visually documents recreational skiing culture through a casual home-movie perspective, showing lift use and snowy resort activity without making broader historical claims.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or audible music are evident, and copyright status is separate from personality or property rights.
Research search match: Useful matches include 1961 Aspen ski lift home movie, vintage 8mm skiing footage, man riding backward on chairlift, and early 1960s Colorado winter recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Aspen or Colorado 1961 winter footage, then broader vintage skiing, ski-lift, and snow recreation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Aspen, Colorado in 1961, a man sits on a yellow-covered ski-lift chair beside an orange lift structure on a snowy slope. — A man rides a yellow-covered chair near the orange ski-lift structure.

A man rides a yellow-covered chair near an orange ski-lift tower in the 1961 Aspen home-movie footage. — The ski-lift chair moves past the orange tower on the snow.

The Aspen ski-lift scene shows the yellow-covered chair beside the orange tower with people standing nearby on snow. — Nearby figures stand as the chair passes the lift structure.

In the Aspen 1961 footage, the man appears on skis near the orange lift structure while other people stand on the snowy slope. — The rider reaches the snowy area near other skiers and the lift structure.

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