Portland Oregon USA-1957: Oil Wells and Transmission Tower

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationPortland, Oregon, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1957 · Portland, Oregon, United States

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Oil Wells and Transmission Tower — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Portland, Oregon, 1957, showing passing views of oil fields on a cloudy day. The clip features a distant oil pump jack and a tall transmission tower in a flat, open landscape under a gray sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, scratches, and light leaks, with a hand partially visible in the foreground. The footage captures a quiet, industrial Americana scene with a nostalgic, documentary feel.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122655826

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: 1957 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: Portland, Oregon, 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: Useful for 1950s industrial Americana edits needing brief 8mm passing views of oil-field infrastructure under cloudy weather.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century oil production equipment, utility structures, open roads, and a gray rural landscape consistent with 1957 home-movie footage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a traveler filming from a moving vehicle, with brief glances at distant pump jacks and roadside utility towers.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open scrubland, distant oil pump jacks, a lattice transmission tower, roadside poles, low hills, cloud cover, and film gate edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, muted color, handheld motion, scratches, dust, and uneven exposure that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short industrial cutaway, travel transition, environmental insert, or memory beat between broader 1950s road footage.
Historical context: The footage visually places oil extraction and utility infrastructure within a quiet, open landscape rather than a dense urban setting.
Research note: No people, logos, or clear private property are visible, but users should separately assess copyright, location claims, and any property considerations.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1957 8mm oil wells, vintage home movie pump jack, cloudy industrial landscape, transmission tower, and roadside oil field views.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel road views, then other 1957 Portland or Oregon material, then broader mid-century oil-field and utility-infrastructure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 8mm home-movie frame with a soft, passing view of open land and low hills under gray cloud cover. — A soft roadside view of open terrain and clouded sky at the start of the clip.
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A 1957 Oregon home-movie view appears to pass a distant utility or oil-field structure on a low hillside beneath heavy clouds. — A distant tower stands against a dark, clouded sky in open country.
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A tall lattice transmission tower and roadside utility poles appear in a soft 1957 8mm view of open industrial land. — A transmission tower rises above roadside poles and flat ground.
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A distant oil pump jack appears in a 1957 home-movie frame, set in open land with utility poles and low hills under a pale sky. — A pump jack sits far from the camera in an open oil-field landscape.
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