Colorado-1969: Driving Past An Open Piece Of Land With Only One House

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Colorado

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Driving Past An Open Piece Of Land With Only One House — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a journey through the Colorado countryside. The view, framed by a vehicle's window, reveals open fields, scattered trees, and distant hills under a vast sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight motion blur, and a nostalgic color palette, evoking a sense of mid-century Americana. This authentic archival clip offers a fleeting glimpse of rural life and travel from the late 1960s.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127493072

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: Supports requests for 1960s Colorado travel footage, rural roadside views, and open-land cutaways for documentary or period-setting edits.
Period detail: The 1969 metadata and moving vehicle viewpoint may show late-1960s rural Colorado, with open fields, low hills, scattered trees, and a small distant house.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged passenger-window perspective, recording a brief roadside glimpse rather than a composed landscape shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include vehicle-window edges, open grassland, low hills, scattered trees, a small distant house, cloudy sky, and film gate shadows.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, exposure fluctuation, vertical scratches, and motion blur that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a rural travel insert, road-trip transition, establishing cutaway, or memory beat between more specific Colorado scenes.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for mid-century car travel through sparsely developed countryside without making identifiable claims about the property or road.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location, and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1969 Colorado 8mm countryside, rural road home movie, open land with house, and vintage driving landscape footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then Colorado 1969 travel scenes, then broader rural roadside and open-land home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Colorado home-movie frame showing a shadowed vehicle-window view with trees, open ground, and cloudy sky beyond. — A roadside view is partially obscured by dark vehicle-window edges.

1969 Colorado roadside view with a blurred tree, low green hillside, and broad cloudy sky seen from a moving vehicle. — A tree and low hill pass by in a soft, motion-blurred roadside view.

1969 Colorado countryside frame showing open grassland, low hills, scattered trees, and a small distant house under cloudy sky. — Open land and low hills appear with a small house in the distance.

1969 Colorado home-movie frame with a low tree-covered hill, open land, cloudy sky, and dark window framing from inside a vehicle. — A low hill and cloudy sky fill the window-framed roadside view.

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