Utah USA-1952: Grainy Footage Of Dirt And The Local Landscape Featuring Large Mounds

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationUtah, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1952 Utah

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Grainy Footage Of Dirt And The Local Landscape Featuring... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this grainy vintage footage captures a desolate, arid landscape in Utah. The view, likely from a moving vehicle, shows rolling dirt mounds and dry terrain under a hazy, overcast sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics—film grain, light scratches, and soft focus—evoking a sense of nostalgia and isolation. This archival home movie offers a raw, unfiltered glimpse of mid-century American rural scenery.

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: 123337306

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: 1952 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: Utah, 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: Serves 1950s American West road-trip documentaries, social-history reels about rural Utah, or wilderness/isolation sequences needing period atmosphere.
Period detail: Muted color palette, heavy grain, and soft focus are consistent with 8mm home-movie film from the early 1950s; no dateable vehicles, signs, or structures are visible to independently confirm the year.
Home-movie behavior: Wide, unsteady framing and shifting perspective suggest a traveler documenting the passing landscape from a moving vehicle rather than a composed scenic shot.
What appears in frame: Dry rolling earth mounds, arid scrubland, sparse low vegetation, hazy overcast sky, film grain, vertical scratch lines in later frames, muted purplish-brown tones, distant horizon.
Film character: Heavy grain, faded purplish-brown color shift, soft focus throughout, and visible vertical scratch lines in later frames give the raw texture of well-aged 8mm reversal stock.
Edit role: Works best as a mood-setting insert or geographic transition cutaway in a documentary about mid-century American travel, Western landscapes, or rural isolation.
Historical context: Tags reference a 'New Orleans to Pacific trip' in 1952, suggesting road-trip context; no landmarks or signage in frame independently confirm the Utah location.
Research note: No people, structures, logos, or private property appear in any frame; standard copyright clearance applies, with location attribution relying solely on original metadata.
Research search match: Researchers may search for 1950s Utah desert, 8mm arid landscape, mid-century American West home movie, or dry terrain road-trip footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same 1952 New Orleans-to-Pacific reel, then 1950s Utah or American Southwest footage, then road-trip or desolate-landscape sequences.

Still Frames From This Clip

8mm home-movie frame, likely Utah, 1952 — rolling earth mounds and dry scrubland under an overcast sky. — Rolling dirt mounds and arid terrain, Utah, c.1952.

8mm home-movie frame, likely Utah, 1952 — layered dirt mounds and bare terrain receding into a hazy sky. — Layered arid mounds under hazy sky, Utah, c.1952.

8mm home-movie frame, likely Utah, 1952 — open arid basin with low rolling mounds and visible vertical film scratches. — Open desert basin with vertical film scratches, Utah, c.1952.

8mm home-movie frame, likely Utah, 1952 — isolated rounded earth mound rising from dry scrubland under an overcast sky. — Isolated earth mound in dry scrubland, Utah, c.1952.

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