Western USA-1980: Large Electrical Pole On Mountain And Surrounding Hills And Valleys

$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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Large Electrical Pole On Mountain And Surrounding Hills... — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from the 1980s showing a large red electrical transmission tower on a mountain peak. The camera captures a sweeping view of surrounding hills, valleys, and scattered evergreen trees below. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, with a white structure visible on the mountainside. The perspective suggests a high vantage point, possibly from a ski lift or observation deck, offering a nostalgic glimpse of rural Western USA infrastructure and landscape.

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: 122822290

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

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1980s Western U.S. infrastructure or mountain-landscape archive requests needing short home-movie footage of a transmission tower and high-elevation terrain.
Period detail: The frames may show a 1980 home-movie view of rural mountain infrastructure, with a red lattice transmission tower, unpaved service areas, evergreen trees, and faded 8mm color.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot viewpoint from a high perch or moving lift, scanning the tower, hillside, and valley without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red electrical tower, rocky slope, pale utility structure, dirt tracks, evergreen stands, distant hills, valley floor, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm texture through soft focus, handheld drift, grain, color fade, uneven exposure, and slight motion blur across the mountain views.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a brief cutaway, geographic transition, infrastructure insert, or memory beat within a sequence about mountain travel or rural utilities.
Historical context: The clip visually places electrical infrastructure within a sparsely developed mountain setting, but the frames do not identify a specific site, utility, or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private interiors are visible, but copyright, land access, and property-identification questions should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Search match for 1980s 8mm Western USA mountain transmission tower, electrical pole on hillside, ski-area viewpoint, rural utility infrastructure, and home-movie landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel mountain footage, then with other 1980 Western U.S. high-country views, then with utility towers, ski lifts, roads, or rural terrain.

Still Frames From This Clip

1980s 8mm view of a red electrical transmission tower on a Western U.S. mountain ridge with valleys and evergreens below. — A red transmission tower stands on a high ridge above winding roads, trees, and distant hills.

Rocky high-elevation slope with gravel, a pale ground patch, and a deep shadow near the film edge. — The camera looks down onto a rocky slope with pale ground and heavy shadow at the edge of the frame.

Close 8mm view of a rocky mountain slope with pale exposed ground and shadow cutting across the frame. — A closer view of the rough mountainside shows stones, pale ground, and a dark foreground shadow.

1980s Western U.S. mountain view with evergreen trees, dirt tracks, a pale utility-like structure, and open hillside. — The view opens to a mountainside with trees, service tracks, open terrain, and a small pale structure.

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