Western USA-1980: Highway by Salt Lake Then Desert Landscape

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Year1980
Decade1980s
LocationUnited States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Highway by Salt Lake Then Desert Landscape — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from the Western USA in 1980, captured from a moving vehicle. The clip opens with a scenic view of a highway running alongside a vast body of water, likely a salt lake, with distant mountains under a partly cloudy sky. A few cars drive along the road, emphasizing mid-century American road travel. The scene transitions with a quick cut to a flat, arid landscape featuring telephone poles, dry fields, and a clear blue sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and a nostalgic, authentic feel, perfect for historical documentaries, retro-themed projects, or editorial content exploring 1980s Americana.

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: 122818518

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: 1980 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: 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

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1980s Western U.S. road-travel footage for documentary inserts, regional travel context, or archival transitions between highway and arid landscape scenes.
Period detail: The frames may show late-20th-century highway infrastructure, small cars, utility poles, and open roadside land typical of Western U.S. travel views.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged passenger view, filming scenery and passing traffic from a moving vehicle rather than a planned production setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a highway, moving cars, broad water, distant mountains, scattered clouds, roadside barriers, utility poles, and dry open land.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, gate edges, and handheld movement that support its physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief road-trip insert, geographic cutaway, transitional memory beat, or quick contrast between water-side highway and dry field.
Historical context: The footage reflects ordinary automobile travel through an open Western landscape, with infrastructure and scenery emphasized more than identifiable people or buildings.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in the supplied frames, but copyright and location verification should be reviewed separately from likeness concerns.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1980s 8mm Western USA highway, home movie road trip by water, cars near mountains, and arid roadside field with utility poles.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1980 Western U.S. travel footage, then with road-trip, highway, desert, or lakeside landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1980 Western U.S. home-movie view of a highway running beside broad water, with distant mountains, clouds, and a small car visible. — A highway follows the edge of a large body of water below distant mountains and scattered clouds.

Moving-vehicle 8mm view of a Western U.S. highway beside water, with low mountains and scattered clouds in the distance. — The road curves along open water, with mountains forming a low horizon beyond the highway.

Passenger-view frame of a highway near broad water and mountains, with grain, soft focus, and dark gate edges from the 8mm scan. — A small car travels along the highway below a bright sky, water, and distant mountain ridge.

Western U.S. roadside view showing highway lanes, dry foreground land, utility poles, water, and a distant mountain range. — The final frame keeps the roadway in view while utility poles and dry land appear along the water-side corridor.

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