Wyoming USA-1939: Clouds Over A Small Town With A War Memorial Statue

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationWyoming, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Wyoming

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Clouds Over A Small Town With A War Memorial Statue — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wyoming, USA, in 1939, showing a cloudy sky over a small town. The clip opens on a hazy, overcast sky before panning to reveal a war memorial statue of a soldier on a pedestal, surrounded by trees. A building with a distinctive cross-topped chimney is visible in the background. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, scratches, and dark borders, capturing a quiet, nostalgic moment from a bygone era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121489642

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: 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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1939 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Wyoming, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s Wyoming town atmosphere, small-town memorial cutaways, and documentary sequences needing a quiet civic exterior from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The 8mm view may show late-1930s civic landscaping, a soldier memorial pedestal, mature street trees, and a masonry building with a chimney-like roof detail.
Home-movie behavior: The camera lingers from cloudy sky to town memorial without staged action, preserving a casual visitor or resident viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include overcast clouds, dark film borders, leafy trees, a soldier statue on a pedestal, a roofline, and a masonry building.
Film character: Soft focus, monochrome contrast, handheld framing, gate edges, scratches, and exposure variation give the scan clear 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, reflective transition, civic-memory cutaway, or visual pause between town-history scenes.
Historical context: The memorial and surrounding town architecture suggest local civic remembrance, while the clouded sky keeps the moment observational rather than ceremonial.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any property or monument permissions for their use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 Wyoming 8mm town footage, small-town war memorial statue, cloudy sky over town, and vintage home movie civic landmark.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Wyoming or 1939 town exteriors, then broader small-town memorial and civic-place footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame showing overcast sky, film gate edges, and the top of a town building entering the lower view. — The clip opens on a hazy overcast sky with a town roofline just visible below.

1939 Wyoming home-movie frame with a soldier memorial statue, leafy trees, and a building roofline in soft monochrome. — A soldier figure on a pedestal appears against trees and the roofline of a nearby building.

1939 Wyoming 8mm view of the memorial pedestal and surrounding trees, with clouds and a nearby building partly visible. — The camera settles lower, showing the memorial pedestal framed by trees and clouded sky.

1939 Wyoming frame showing the memorial pedestal beside trees, with a masonry building and windows in the background. — The final frame holds on the pedestal and adjacent building, with trees filling the background.

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