Wyoming USA-1939: Travel Through Desert Landscape With Idaho Power Sign

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

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Travel Through Desert Landscape With Idaho Power Sign — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wyoming, USA, in 1939, showing a scenic journey through a desert landscape. The grainy black-and-white film captures a distant view of a hillside with the words "IDAHO POWER" visible, suggesting a power plant or dam. The footage is shot from a moving vehicle, likely a car or train, with a dark frame border indicating it was filmed through a window. The landscape features sparse vegetation, scattered trees, and rolling hills under a clear sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics, including film grain, scratches, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of mid-20th century Americana.

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: 121489858

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: Yes
Audible music: No

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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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s U.S. travel footage suited to documentary inserts on western road or rail journeys, rural utilities, and arid landscape views.
Period detail: The black-and-white 8mm view, window framing, and distant IDAHO POWER lettering support a late-1930s travel record, though the exact facility is not identified in the frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves a passing traveler’s view from behind a dark window or vehicle frame, valuing movement and observation over composed scenery.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rolling dry hills, sparse trees, a distant utility site or hillside sign, open sky, foreground blur, and dark window borders.
Film character: Soft focus, motion blur, gate edges, scratches, and uneven exposure give the scanned 8mm footage a tactile home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel insert, geographic transition, utility-landscape cutaway, or memory beat within a western U.S. sequence.
Historical context: The footage may show how a 1939 traveler encountered industrial markings within an otherwise open western landscape, without confirming the site’s function.
Research note: The visible IDAHO POWER wording should be reviewed for trademark or brand context; no people are visible, and copyright clearance is separate from trademark or property concerns.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1930s Wyoming travel footage, 8mm desert landscape, Idaho Power sign, western U.S. home movie, and moving vehicle window view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel footage, then other 1939 Wyoming or western U.S. travel scenes, then broader desert-road and rural utility imagery.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Wyoming travel footage shows a distant hillside, sparse trees, and utility structures viewed through a dark vehicle or window frame. — A passing view of dry hills and distant utility structures framed by dark window edges.

The moving 8mm view looks across a dry Wyoming hillside toward distant buildings, with dark window bars cutting through the frame. — Distant buildings and dry hills pass behind heavy dark frame borders.

The IDAHO POWER lettering appears on a distant hillside in 1939 Wyoming footage, with trees, dry ground, and utility structures nearby. — The IDAHO POWER sign becomes clearer across the hillside as the camera passes.

A final moving view shows IDAHO POWER lettering beyond sparse trees and dry foreground terrain in the Wyoming travel sequence. — IDAHO POWER lettering remains visible beyond trees and dry foreground land.

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