Las Vegas USA-1958: Car Driving On Rural Road With Utility Poles

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

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Car Driving On Rural Road With Utility Poles — Clip Details

Shot from inside a vintage car in 1958, this 8mm home movie captures a journey along a desolate rural road in Las Vegas, USA. The view from the windshield shows a straight asphalt road stretching into the distance, flanked by dry grasslands and a line of utility poles under a hazy sky. The car's chrome hood ornament is visible in the foreground, adding to the authentic period feel. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, muted colors, and slight camera shake, evoking a sense of mid-century Americana and quiet travel.

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: 123608804

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 U.S. road-travel requests needing rural Las Vegas-area driving footage, windshield views, or mid-century highway atmosphere.
Period detail: The visible chrome hood ornament, narrow rural asphalt road, and roadside utility poles support a late-1950s motoring context shown in the metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the unstaged feel of a passenger filming forward through the windshield during an ordinary car trip across open rural terrain.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the car hood and ornament, straight asphalt roadway, dry roadside grass, utility poles, hazy sky, flat fields, and a distant bare tree.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows muted color, soft focus, grain, exposure variation, gate edges, and light handheld vibration consistent with home-movie travel footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, road-transition shot, travel cutaway, or memory beat suggesting movement through open mid-century Nevada landscape.
Historical context: The clip visually documents automobile travel through a sparsely built roadside environment, with infrastructure and open land more prominent than people or businesses.
Research note: No people, brands, or private property are visible in the supplied frames, but copyright status and any broader location claims should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Las Vegas road footage, 1950s rural driving view, vintage car hood ornament POV, 8mm highway travel, and utility pole roadside.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Las Vegas or Nevada travel scenes, then broader 1950s U.S. road-trip footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Las Vegas-area home-movie view through a car windshield toward a rural road, roadside utility poles, dry grass, and a chrome hood ornament. — A car travels along a flat rural road bordered by utility poles and dry roadside grass.

Windshield view from a 1958 home movie showing open rural Las Vegas-area roadside, utility poles, flat fields, and part of the car hood ornament. — Utility poles recede across open land beside the road as the car continues forward.

A bright 1958 Las Vegas-area driving view shows the road ahead through windshield glare, with dry roadside fields and utility poles fading into haze. — The road stretches ahead into glare, with poles and flat roadside land along the route.

A 1958 home-movie frame from the car shows the hood ornament in front of a rural Las Vegas-area road, dry ground, and utility poles under haze. — The hood ornament anchors the foreground as utility poles line the open roadside.

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