California USA-1952: Electric Transmission Pylon Against Blue Sky

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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

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Electric Transmission Pylon Against Blue Sky — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this clip captures a view from a moving vehicle of a towering electric transmission pylon against a deep blue sky. The rugged, arid mountains of California pass by in the background, with the pylon and power lines dominating the foreground. The footage exhibits the characteristic grain and color saturation of vintage home movies, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century infrastructure and travel.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123339032

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 1234 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: miss universe
Reel-level year note: 1952
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1952 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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: 1950s California travel footage useful for documentary inserts about mid-century power infrastructure, road trips, arid landscapes, or utility corridors.
Period detail: The visible steel transmission tower, overhead lines, saturated color, and 8mm home-movie framing support a mid-century infrastructure and travel context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a passenger-window viewpoint, with the pylon and mountains passing as an unstaged roadside observation rather than a composed industrial survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a steel transmission tower, overhead power lines, blue sky, dry mountains, rocky slopes, road-edge blur, and pale utility structures.
Film character: The footage has 8mm grain, saturated blue color, slight softness, gate edges, and motion blur from filming out of a moving vehicle.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, travel transition, infrastructure insert, or memory beat within a California road-trip sequence.
Historical context: The view places electrical transmission equipment within a dry mountain landscape, suggesting the visual overlap of travel, utility expansion, and open terrain.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still assess copyright status and any property or infrastructure permissions separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1950s California 8mm power lines, vintage transmission tower footage, roadside infrastructure, and desert mountain travel views.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same New Orleans to Pacific trip reel, then with 1952 California travel material, then with broader power-line or roadside landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 California 8mm frame showing a steel transmission tower, overhead lines, blue sky, and arid mountain slopes from a moving vehicle. — Transmission tower and wires pass in front of dry mountain terrain.

1952 California travel frame with a power pylon crossing the foreground before rugged hills and a deep blue sky. — A roadside view catches a power pylon set against arid hills.

1952 California 8mm frame of a transmission tower and overhead wires, with rocky mountains and a dark valley shape behind. — The moving camera tilts past a tall tower and wires in mountain terrain.

1952 California frame showing a steel power tower, overhead lines, mountains, and pale utility structures at the lower edge. — Power infrastructure fills the foreground with mountains and small utility structures below.

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