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Portland Oregon USA-1957: Road Through Desert With Solitary Tree

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

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Road Through Desert With Solitary Tree — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Portland, Oregon, 1957, capturing a journey through the American West. The clip opens on a vast, arid desert landscape under a pale blue sky, with distant mountains visible on the horizon. A solitary tree stands alone in the sparse terrain, emphasizing the isolation. The perspective shifts to a moving vehicle's view, showing a red asphalt road with a yellow center line cutting through the scrubland. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: grainy texture, slight color fading, and natural imperfections, evoking a strong sense of mid-century Americana and nostalgic travel.

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
122656139

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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

  • tree road dessert
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  • wyoming oregon USA
  • 1957
  • 1957 road trip footage
  • vintage 8mm film
  • Super 8 road movie
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  • desert road
  • solitary tree
  • mid-century travel
  • retro home movie
  • archival footage
  • 1950s Americana
  • Oregon road trip
  • vintage film grain
  • 8mm home movie
  • nostalgic travel
  • classic American road
  • 1957 vintage footage
  • old film
  • documentary style
  • historical footage
  • road trip 1957

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1950s American road-trip or Western landscape requests needing brief archival 8mm travel footage without visible people.
Period detail
The red roadway, yellow center line, desert scrub, and soft color 8mm look support a mid-century home-movie travel context, though the exact road location is not identifiable from the frames.
Home-movie behavior
The clip carries the unstaged value of a traveler filming passing desert scenery from a roadside or moving vehicle perspective.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a solitary tree, open scrubland, distant low mountains, pale sky, red asphalt road, yellow center line, and 8mm frame borders.
Film character
The footage shows grain, soft focus, slight color fading, gate edges, and exposure variation typical of scanned 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a travel insert, landscape transition, road-trip cutaway, or quiet memory beat between more specific journey scenes.
Historical context
The frames suggest mid-century leisure travel through arid Western terrain, emphasizing open road and sparse landscape rather than a named landmark.
Research note
No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still assess copyright status and any location or roadway permissions for their use.
Research search match
Researchers may find it under 1950s 8mm road trip footage, desert highway home movie, solitary tree landscape, or American West travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then with 1957 Oregon or Western road footage, and then with broader vintage desert travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 8mm home-movie frame showing a lone tree across arid scrubland with low mountains on the horizon.
A lone tree stands in sparse desert terrain beneath a pale sky.
1957 home-movie view of a solitary tree in arid Western scrub, with distant hills and visible film gate borders.
The camera holds on a lone tree against low hills and scrubland.
1957 8mm travel frame showing a red road surface and yellow center line passing arid scrubland and distant mountains.
A red roadway cuts past scrubland toward distant low mountains.
1957 8mm home-movie road view across desert scrub, with a yellow center line and low mountain horizon.
The road edge and center line pass through open scrubland.

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