Western USA-1980: Wires Run Between Elevated Red Electrical Transmission Tower

$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.

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

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Wires Run Between Elevated Red Electrical Transmission Tower — Clip Details

Vintage 1980s 8mm home movie footage from the Western USA showing an elevated red electrical transmission tower against a vast mountainous landscape. The camera moves across the rugged terrain, capturing the red lattice tower, power lines stretching into the distance, and a mix of forested hills and open valleys below. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and a nostalgic, documentary-style perspective from a high vantage point, likely from a cable car or aerial lift. This authentic archival clip captures mid-century infrastructure in a remote natural setting.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Aerial
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122822272

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1980s Western United States home-movie footage for requests needing mountain infrastructure, power lines, or aerial lift views in a documentary edit.
Period detail: The clip may show late 20th-century mountain utility infrastructure, with a red lattice tower, suspended wires, and color-faded 8mm texture supporting the 1980 date.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot feel from a high moving vantage point, observing the tower, cables, road cuts, trees, and valley without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include red lattice towers, overhead wires, forested slopes, rocky ground, dirt roads, a small green-roofed structure, open valleys, and distant hills.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows natural grain, soft focus, slight color fade, gate edges, and handheld or moving-platform instability as part of its archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, transition, or establishing insert for mountain infrastructure, utility networks, travel, or remote landscape sequences.
Historical context: The views place electrical or lift-related infrastructure within a rugged mountain setting, showing technology crossing open terrain without visible people or signage.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright status and any property or infrastructure permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1980s 8mm Western USA power lines, red transmission tower mountain landscape, aerial lift wires, and home movie utility infrastructure.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel footage, then other 1980 Western USA mountain views, and then broader themes of power lines, towers, roads, forests, and high vistas.

Still Frames From This Clip

1980 Western USA 8mm frame showing a red tower with suspended wires over a wide mountain valley and distant ridges. — Red tower and overhead cables seen from a high moving vantage point above the valley.

High view of rugged Western USA terrain with a red lattice tower, dirt roads, scattered trees, and a small green-roofed building. — Ridge-top infrastructure, dirt roads, and trees pass below the camera.

8mm view across a rocky slope in the Western USA, with trees, a dirt road, a small structure, and red tower steel at the edge. — The moving view looks down over the ridge and road beside the red tower structure.

Western USA mountain view with red tower sections, overhead wires, forested slopes, dirt tracks, and a distant valley. — Power or lift wires run past the red tower over a forested mountain landscape.

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