Las Vegas USA-1958: Traveling Through The Countryside

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationLas Vegas, Nevada, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Las Vegas

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Traveling Through The Countryside — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a scenic autumn drive through the American countryside. The footage, framed by the dark edges of a window or viewfinder, reveals rolling hills blanketed in trees displaying vibrant fall colors—yellows, oranges, and reds—against a clear blue sky. The camera moves steadily, offering sweeping panoramic views of the rural landscape, with a close-up of a colorful tree in the final frame. The film's characteristic grain and slight color fading enhance its nostalgic, archival quality, evoking a sense of peaceful travel and mid-century 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: 123607490

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 1831 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1958-1959
Reel-level location note: las vegas,flagstaff
Date: 1958 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: Las Vegas, Nevada, 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s American travel or countryside sequences needing brief autumn landscape views from real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frames show no dated objects, but the 8mm color, rounded frame edges, and metadata-supported 1958 date place it in a mid-century home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the casual, observational feel of a traveler filming scenery through a window or viewfinder rather than a staged landscape setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rolling hills, distant ridgelines, autumn trees, dark frame borders, open sky, and a closer view of a large tree.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, and uneven exposure give the footage a recognizable scanned 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural travel insert, scenic transition, memory beat, or cutaway between road-trip and destination material.
Historical context: The clip reflects mid-century leisure travel through open countryside, with attention on seasonal landscape rather than people or built landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright status and any location-specific property concerns should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1958 8mm countryside travel, vintage autumn hills, home movie landscape, rural scenic drive, and mid-century American scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1958 Las Vegas or Nevada travel clips, then broader autumn countryside or road-trip material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 8mm home-movie view of rolling countryside, autumn trees, and distant hills near the Las Vegas travel sequence. — Rolling hills and fall foliage appear beyond dark film-frame edges.

Wide 8mm frame of autumn trees and low hills, with the landscape partly enclosed by dark viewfinder-like edges. — A broad valley of autumn trees stretches toward low hills.

Soft 1958 travel footage frame showing fall-colored trees and distant ridges across a dark foreground band. — Fall foliage and distant ridgelines are framed by heavy dark edges.

Close 8mm view of a large autumn-colored tree with surrounding darker trees and bright sky behind it. — The final frame moves closer to a large tree in autumn color.

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