Portland Oregon USA-1957: Various Shots Of A Deserted Wasteland That Is

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

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Various Shots Of A Deserted Wasteland That Is — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Portland, Oregon, 1957, showing a desolate, foggy landscape through a scratched and damaged film frame. The image is extremely grainy with heavy film wear, including scratches, dust, and a stray fiber visible in the frame. A faint, indistinct mountainous silhouette appears through the haze, creating a haunting, atmospheric view of a deserted wasteland. The footage captures the raw, unfiltered quality of archival Super 8 film, with natural film grain and a muted, washed-out color palette. This authentic, unedited clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American life and landscape, ideal for historical or documentary projects.

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: 122655861

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: 1950s 8mm footage useful for documentary requests needing an atmospheric landscape insert, damaged-film texture, or an ambiguous desolate exterior tied to Portland, Oregon metadata.
Period detail: The frames show no clear built-era markers, but the 1957 metadata and 8mm source support a mid-century home-movie context with a muted, worn color image.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, holding on a distant hazy landscape rather than a composed scenic landmark or identifiable subject.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark film-frame borders, scratched emulsion, dust specks, pale haze, a low distant horizon, and faint mountain-like silhouettes.
Film character: The footage has heavy 8mm grain, soft focus, muted exposure, visible splice or frame-edge divisions, dust, scratches, and a washed color palette that reads as physical archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief transition, memory beat, damaged-film insert, or atmospheric cutaway before or after clearer Portland or landscape material.
Historical context: The view suggests a quiet exterior landscape recorded in a home-movie reel, with little social context visible beyond the period film format and the desolate horizon.
Research note: No people, brands, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright, source ownership, location certainty, and any broader reel context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1957 8mm Portland Oregon landscape, foggy damaged home movie, deserted wasteland horizon, scratched film texture, and mid-century archival cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1957 Portland or Oregon exteriors, then broader damaged-film, foggy-landscape, or deserted-horizon material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Portland, Oregon metadata frame showing a dim, scratched 8mm view of a pale haze and indistinct distant landform. — A worn film frame looks across a hazy, nearly featureless landscape.

A scratched 8mm home-movie frame from the Portland, Oregon metadata shows a soft, foggy horizon with no visible people or structures. — The landscape remains indistinct behind heavy film wear and haze.

1957 8mm footage metadata shows a washed, scratched view of a low barren-looking horizon under a pale, foggy sky. — A low, dark horizon sits beneath a washed-out sky in the damaged 8mm frame.

The final 1957 Portland metadata frame shows a faint mound or mountain-like shape through haze, with heavy scratches and dust visible. — A vague landform appears through the haze as the worn film texture dominates the frame.

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