Las Vegas USA-1958: Glowing Figure Walking in Dark Landscape

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

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Glowing Figure Walking in Dark Landscape — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a glowing, ethereal figure walking through a dark, grainy landscape. The figure, possibly a sheep or animal, appears as a luminous, ghostly shape against a shadowy backdrop, creating a surreal and mysterious atmosphere. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and a dreamlike quality, with the subject moving slowly across the frame. The scene evokes a sense of nostalgia and wonder, typical of mid-century amateur film recordings. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects exploring vintage film aesthetics and unexplained phenomena.

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: 123608393

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Las Vegas-area 8mm home-movie material for productions needing an ambiguous night animal or eerie landscape insert.
Period detail: The frames offer few firm era clues beyond the 1958 8mm source metadata, with soft color, heavy grain, and exposure shifts typical of amateur mid-century filming.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the exploratory feel of a home-movie camera trying to record a dimly lit animal or glowing form in low light.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pale walking animal-like figure, dark ground, brush or garden texture, frame edges, exposure flares, and blue-black night tones.
Film character: Dense grain, soft focus, gate edges, and uneven exposure give the footage a fragile physical-film texture from an original small-gauge scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief mysterious cutaway, dreamlike transition, memory beat, or atmospheric insert within a 1950s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The clip suggests amateur outdoor filming at night or in very low light, but the subject and exact setting remain visually uncertain.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or animal identification should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1958 8mm Las Vegas home movie, glowing animal at night, grainy vintage landscape, and mysterious home-movie footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Las Vegas footage, then broader night animals or surreal home-movie fragments.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Las Vegas-area 8mm frame with a pale animal-like form against dark ground and soft brush texture. — A bright animal-like shape appears in the upper left of a dark, grainy landscape.

Grainy 1958 Las Vegas-area 8mm frame showing a soft pale form amid dark outdoor texture. — A rounded pale form is barely separated from the dark, mottled background.

1958 Las Vegas-area 8mm frame with blue-black darkness, bright gate-edge flare, and a faint pale blur near center. — The subject fades into a blue-toned, underexposed frame with bright film-edge flares.

Underexposed 1958 Las Vegas-area 8mm frame with a faint pale blur, heavy grain, and bright scan edge. — A faint pale shape remains visible in the dark as the frame shows strong edge flare.

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