Colorado-1969: Mountain Valley with Houses and Lake

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Colorado

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Mountain Valley with Houses and Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a serene mountain landscape in Colorado. The camera pans slowly across a rugged, tree-covered mountain slope, revealing a small settlement nestled in a valley below. Green grassy fields and scattered trees surround a calm lake in the foreground, with a few houses visible along the shoreline. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, warm color tones, and subtle vertical scratches, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. No people are present, emphasizing the quiet beauty of the natural and residential environment.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: No people
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127492039

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 1316 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: black mar fire,flood,hippies,summer
Reel-level year note: 1968-1969
Reel-level location note: boulder colorado
Date: 1969 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: 1960s Colorado home-movie landscape footage for productions needing a quiet mountain valley, lakeside settlement, or rural travel cutaway.
Period detail: The frames may show late-1960s vacation filming through their 8mm color stock, soft focus, and distant low buildings along a mountain lake.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a visitor pausing to pan across scenery rather than documenting a planned event or posed activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a calm lake edge, green fields, clustered trees, scattered houses, forested slopes, rocky mountain faces, and blue sky.
Film character: The footage carries visible 8mm grain, warm color shifts, gate edges, soft exposure, and light vertical scratching consistent with scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a scenic insert, regional establishing cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition between Colorado outdoor sequences.
Historical context: The scene gives visual context for mountain-adjacent residential development and leisure viewing in Colorado without showing identifiable people or activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but distant buildings and underlying copyright should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 Colorado 8mm mountain lake, vintage home movie mountain valley, and rural lakeside settlement footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1969 Colorado scenery, and then broader mountain lake or rural travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Colorado 8mm frame showing a forested mountain slope, grassy valley, scattered lakeside houses, and still water. — Forested mountain and valley settlement seen across a calm lake.

1969 Colorado home-movie view of a rocky mountain face above trees, small buildings, open grass, and lake shoreline. — Rocky ridge and small lakeside settlement below the mountain.

1969 Colorado 8mm frame with a rocky mountainside, dark tree cover, low buildings, grassy fields, and lake foreground. — Mountain face dominates the valley with buildings near the lakeshore.

1969 Colorado frame showing the pan across a rocky mountain slope with trees, houses, grass, and still lake water below. — End of the pan across the mountain slope and lakeside houses.

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