Arizona USA-1958: Mountains At Night Fire In The Distance With Smoke Rising Up

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationArizona, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Arizona

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Mountains At Night Fire In The Distance With Smoke Rising Up — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Arizona USA in 1958 captures a distant wildfire at night. A bright orange flame glows on the horizon behind dark mountain silhouettes, with a thick plume of smoke rising into the purple-tinged twilight sky. The grainy, low-light image shows classic Super 8 film characteristics with visible noise and soft focus. The scene remains static, emphasizing the isolation and scale of the fire in the vast desert landscape. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of a natural event from the late 1950s, perfect for historical documentaries or retro-themed content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122803948

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: 1958 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: Arizona, 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 Arizona archival requests needing a distant wildfire, desert mountain night scene, or environmental hazard cutaway from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frames show a low-light 8mm view consistent with the 1958 metadata, with no visible cars, buildings, clothing, signage, or other date-specific details in frame.
Home-movie behavior: The static distant viewpoint has the feel of a bystander recording an unusual fire from afar rather than a staged or news-style setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark mountain ridge, a bright orange fire on the horizon, rising smoke, purple twilight sky, heavy film grain, and black contact-sheet borders.
Film character: The clip carries a low-light 8mm texture with coarse grain, soft focus, muted purple color, gate edges, and exposure shifts that support its home-movie origin.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, transition, environmental cutaway, or memory beat for wildfire, desert night, or mid-century Arizona sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually documents a distant fire in an open mountain or desert landscape, without enough visible detail to identify the exact fire, land parcel, or cause.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, source ownership, and any location-specific claims should still be checked before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Arizona 8mm wildfire footage, distant fire at night, smoke over mountains, desert home movie fire, and mid-century archival fire scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other Arizona 1958 material, then broader wildfire, smoke, mountain, desert night, or home-movie disaster footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Arizona 8mm frame showing a small bright fire on the horizon behind dark mountains, with smoke lifting into a grainy twilight sky. — A distant fire burns behind the mountain ridge as smoke rises into the low-light sky.

1958 Arizona home-movie frame with a distant orange flame, smoke plume, silhouetted hills, and visible low-light film grain. — Smoke rises above a small bright flame on the distant mountain horizon.

1958 Arizona 8mm frame showing the fire slightly lower in the composition, under smoke and a grainy dusk sky over mountains. — The fire remains visible below the smoke plume in a static low-light mountain view.

1958 Arizona 8mm frame with a distant wildfire glow behind a dark ridge, smoke overhead, and soft grain from low-light filming. — A small orange fire glows behind the ridge while smoke spreads across the sky.

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