Wyoming USA-1939: View Of Steam Locomotive Passing By Snow Covered Mountain

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

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View Of Steam Locomotive Passing By Snow Covered Mountain — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1939 showing a steam locomotive passing through a rugged mountain landscape in Wyoming. The train, emitting thick plumes of white steam, travels along tracks beside a towering, snow-dusted rock formation. A wooden utility pole with wires stands in the foreground, partially framing the scene. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and slight motion blur, capturing a nostalgic moment of early 20th-century transportation against a dramatic natural backdrop.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121491072

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 8mm Wyoming rail footage for productions needing a brief transportation, mountain travel, or steam-era landscape insert.
Period detail: The steam locomotive, wooden utility poles, overhead wires, and narrow mountain rail corridor support a late-1930s transportation setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a traveler or rail observer filming from beside the tracks as the train passes through a dramatic mountain cut.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a steam locomotive, freight or passenger cars, rocky snow-dusted mountains, utility poles, wires, fencing, trackside grass, and drifting steam.
Film character: The footage carries dense 8mm grain, soft focus, saturated blue-purple shadows, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a compact cutaway, travel transition, period transportation insert, or memory beat in a mountain West sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually places rail travel within a rugged western mountain landscape without identifying a specific route, railroad company, or landmark.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location, railroad identification, and property context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1930s Wyoming steam train, 8mm mountain railroad footage, vintage locomotive passing rocks, and home movie rail travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1939 Wyoming material, then broader steam locomotive, mountain travel, and western landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame showing a rugged snow-dusted rock formation, utility pole, wires, and trackside ground before the train enters view. — Snow-dusted rock walls and utility lines frame the mountain rail setting.

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame with a steam locomotive moving through a mountain rail corridor below steep rock faces and utility wires. — A steam train passes along the base of steep rocky mountains.

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame showing train cars, a steam plume, utility poles, and snow-dusted rock faces along the track. — Train cars roll past foreground utility poles as steam drifts upward.

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame focused on jagged mountain rock surfaces with pale snow or light-toned patches and soft film grain. — The shot ends on a close, grainy view of rugged mountain rock.

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