Wyoming USA-1939: Smoke Plume Rising from Landscape

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

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Smoke Plume Rising from Landscape — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wyoming, USA, in 1939, showing a wide, flat landscape with a distant horizon. The scene captures a large plume of white smoke or steam rising into the overcast sky, likely from an industrial source or natural emission. The grainy black-and-white image, framed by film borders, exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics including flicker, scratches, and soft focus. The smoke evolves subtly across the frames, creating a moody, atmospheric view of early 20th-century rural America. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into historical environmental and industrial activity, ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or vintage-themed content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121489942

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 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: 1930s Wyoming home-movie landscape footage for productions needing a brief rural river or smoke-plume cutaway with cautious environmental or industrial context.
Period detail: The distant horizon, monochrome 8mm texture, and sparse open landscape support a 1939 rural Wyoming setting, while the smoke or steam source is not identifiable in frame.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an observational home-movie viewpoint, holding on a distant plume across flat terrain without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a flat foreground, distant river or waterline, low horizon, overcast sky, pale smoke or steam plume, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The footage shows soft focus, visible grain, flicker, frame-edge shadowing, and uneven exposure characteristic of scanned 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short atmospheric insert, rural transition, environmental cutaway, or memory beat between Wyoming or 1930s sequences.
Historical context: The view may document a rural landscape with a distant emission or steam plume, but the frames do not identify whether it is natural, agricultural, industrial, or fire-related.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright status and the exact source of the smoke or steam should be checked before sensitive use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 Wyoming 8mm landscape, rural smoke plume, river horizon home movie, black-and-white archival footage, and early western U.S. scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Wyoming material, then broader rural landscapes, rivers, smoke, steam, or environmental atmosphere.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame showing a low horizon, flat terrain, and a faint pale plume rising in the distance. — A distant plume rises beyond a flat Wyoming landscape.

Archival 8mm view of a sparse Wyoming horizon with a faint vertical plume against a gray sky. — A faint plume stands out near the far horizon.

1939 Wyoming home-movie frame with a pale plume rising behind a low landscape, framed by dark 8mm borders. — White smoke or steam rises behind the low horizon.

Late frame from the 1939 Wyoming clip showing a muted horizon and softened smoke or steam in grainy 8mm footage. — The plume softens near the horizon in the final frame.

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