Wyoming USA-1939: Stormy Sea with Turbulent Waves and Strong Winds

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

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Stormy Sea with Turbulent Waves and Strong Winds — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wyoming USA in 1939, showing a stormy sea with turbulent waves and strong winds. The grainy, monochrome film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics with visible scratches, dust, and film edge damage. The scene captures raw, unedited archival footage of a powerful coastal storm, with dark, churning water and overcast skies. The footage is authentic, unprocessed, and ideal for historical or nostalgic projects.

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: 121490475

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: Useful for 1930s archival requests needing an abstract storm, water, or damaged-film insert from an 8mm home-movie source.
Period detail: The frames offer few date-specific clues beyond the supplied 1939 8mm metadata, with soft exposure, visible frame edges, and monochrome-looking transfer texture.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged home-movie fragment, apparently recorded as an observational weather or water scene rather than a composed production shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark vertical film-frame edges, pale overcast tones, faint water or cloud shapes, scratches, dust specks, and a soft horizontal exposure shift.
Film character: The footage carries strong physical-film texture, with grain, scratches, gate-edge darkness, muted contrast, and uneven exposure across the brief scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short atmospheric insert, memory beat, weather transition, or abstract archival cutaway where exact location detail is secondary.
Historical context: The clip may reflect amateur 8mm documentation of weather or rough water, though the frames do not independently confirm a coastal setting or Wyoming context.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright status and any location claims should be reviewed separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1939 8mm storm footage, vintage rough water, archival weather insert, damaged home movie film, and wind or wave cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Wyoming or 1939 8mm material if verified, then broader storm, wind, wave, or damaged-film atmospheric footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 8mm frame with a dark vertical edge, pale overcast texture, scratches, dust, and no visible people or brands. — A pale, scratched frame bordered by dark film edge, with only faint storm-like tonal detail visible.

1939 8mm frame showing a dark vertical band, pale gray-blue tones, film scratches, dust, and indistinct storm texture. — A dark frame band divides a pale, weathered 8mm view with faint atmospheric detail.

1939 8mm frame with a dark side edge, pale scratched surface, horizontal exposure shift, and a blurred dark shape near the lower area. — A blurred dark form appears low in the frame amid scratches and uneven exposure.

1939 8mm frame with dark vertical edges, pale overcast tones, scratches, dust, and very limited readable scene detail. — Dark film edges frame a pale, scratched view with little distinct subject detail visible.

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