Wyoming USA-1939: Car Passing Through Land With Fire Consuming Grass

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

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Car Passing Through Land With Fire Consuming Grass — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wyoming, USA, in 1939, showing a dramatic wildfire consuming grasslands. The grainy black-and-white film captures a wide, desolate landscape with thick smoke billowing across the horizon. A car is seen passing through the scene, moving from left to right, as flames spread across the field. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics, including visible grain, scratches, and a dark border, evoking a sense of historical urgency and natural disaster. This archival clip offers authentic, unfiltered documentation of a wildfire event, ideal for historical or environmental storytelling.

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: 121489953

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

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: Supports 1930s environmental, rural West, disaster, or home-movie requests needing brief 8mm footage of smoke and grassland fire in Wyoming.
Period detail: The frames may show period rural travel context through the 1939 metadata, with an open treeless landscape and no visible modern structures or signage.
Home-movie behavior: The camera records the distant smoke and grass fire from a roadside or passing-vehicle viewpoint, giving the scene an unstaged home-movie immediacy.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open grassland, low horizon lines, smoke plumes, dark film borders, soft exposure shifts, and a distant burning strip.
Film character: The black-and-white 8mm scan shows heavy grain, scratches, gate borders, soft focus, and uneven exposure that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or cutaway for wildfire, drought, rural travel, environmental risk, or Western landscape context.
Historical context: The footage visually documents smoke and apparent grassland fire across an open Wyoming landscape without identifying a specific incident or property.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private property are visible, but copyright status and any location-specific permissions should still be independently reviewed.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1939 Wyoming 8mm wildfire footage, grass fire smoke home movie, rural West fire scene, and black-and-white grassland burn.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Wyoming scenes, then other 1939 Wyoming travel footage, then broader 1930s wildfire, smoke, and rural landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame showing distant smoke over an open grassland horizon with dark gate borders and visible film grain. — Smoke hangs low over open grassland in a dark-bordered 8mm frame.

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame with a wide open grassland horizon, faint smoke, and prominent vertical gate borders. — A wide grassland horizon is partly obscured by faint smoke.

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame showing heavier smoke spreading above a low grassland burn line, with grain and scratches visible. — Heavier smoke spreads along a low strip of grassland.

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame where smoke or haze washes over a pale field, leaving only a faint horizon and dark frame edge visible. — Smoke or haze softens the field and nearly obscures the horizon.

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