Colorado-1969: A Cool View Of A Calm Lake Surrounded By Trees And Buildings At

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

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A Cool View Of A Calm Lake Surrounded By Trees And... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a serene lake view in Colorado. The camera pans across calm water framed by lush green trees and grassy banks, with residential buildings visible in the distance. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 color grading with a distinct blue-purple tint and natural film grain, evoking a nostalgic, sun-drenched summer day. The perspective shifts from a shaded foreground to a wider view of the lake and shoreline, offering a peaceful glimpse of mid-century suburban life.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127492184

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s Colorado home-movie requests needing a quiet lake, shoreline, or suburban nature cutaway for documentary, museum, education, or editorial use.
Period detail: The footage may show late-1960s lakeside residential surroundings, with simple shoreline landscaping, mature trees, and low buildings seen across the water.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the casual visitor or family-camera perspective, panning from shaded trees toward calm water without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm lake water, tree trunks and overhanging leaves, grassy bank, distant low buildings, shoreline details, and bright reflected sky.
Film character: The 8mm image has visible grain, soft focus, blue-purple color shift, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, reflective transition, location cutaway, or memory beat between more active family or travel scenes.
Historical context: The clip offers a modest view of recreational or residential lakeside space in Colorado, emphasizing landscape and built surroundings rather than identifiable events.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property concerns should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 Colorado 8mm lake footage, vintage home movie calm water, trees by a lake, suburban shoreline, and 1960s scenic cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Colorado 1969 home movies, and finally broader 1960s lake, trees, and residential shoreline footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Colorado 8mm frame of calm lake water framed by dark tree trunks, leafy branches, grass, and distant shoreline. — A shaded lakeside view frames calm water through trees and grass.

1969 Colorado lake view with foreground tree silhouettes, blue-tinted water, and low buildings across the shoreline. — Foreground trees partially obscure distant buildings beyond the lake.

A blue-purple 8mm view across Colorado lake water toward a low building, with a dark tree trunk in the foreground. — The camera view shifts across the lake toward a low building on the far shore.

Late shot of the 1969 Colorado lake scene, with shaded tree forms, reflective water, and low buildings across the shore. — Shaded trees and reflective water close the brief lakeside pan.

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