Las Vegas USA-1958: Car on Desert Road with Tumbleweed

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

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Car on Desert Road with Tumbleweed — Clip Details

Shot from inside a car in 1958, this vintage 8mm home movie captures a journey along a desolate desert highway. The view from the windshield shows a long, straight road stretching into the hazy distance, flanked by dry grasslands and scattered telephone poles. A tumbleweed rolls across the road, passing by as the vehicle moves forward. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, muted colors, and a slightly overcast sky, evoking a sense of mid-century Americana and open-road nostalgia. The dashboard and side mirror are visible, grounding the perspective in a personal, first-person experience. This authentic archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 123608883

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: This 1950s Las Vegas-area 8mm road-view clip supports archival requests for mid-century desert highway travel, rural driving inserts, and understated open-road documentary transitions.
Period detail: The visible car hood, roadside utility poles, straight two-lane pavement, muted color stock, and sparse desert surroundings may show mid-century automobile travel outside Las Vegas in 1958 as described by the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the unstaged value of a passenger or driver filming forward through the windshield during ordinary travel rather than presenting a composed scenic view.
What appears in frame: The frames show a straight desert road, pale car hood, windshield or lens marks, roadside telephone poles, dry grassland, distant bare trees or brush, and a tumbleweed crossing or passing near the lane.
Film character: The clip carries a soft 8mm home-movie texture with visible grain, muted blue-gray color, slight haze, minor exposure variation, and handheld in-car framing.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief first-person driving insert, a travel transition, a memory beat, or a cutaway for desert-road movement in a 1950s sequence.
Historical context: The view documents automobile travel through a sparsely developed desert roadside landscape, with utility lines and open land giving context to mid-century regional mobility without identifying a specific highway or landmark.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or private property are visible in the supplied frames, but copyright, location confirmation, and any production-specific rights review remain separate clearance steps.
Research search match: Useful researcher searches include 1958 8mm desert highway driving, Las Vegas area road from car, mid-century Nevada open road, tumbleweed crossing road, and vintage home movie travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel travel footage, then with other Las Vegas or Nevada 1958 road material, and then with broader desert driving, automobile travel, and mid-century Americana sequences.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Las Vegas-area 8mm frame looking through a car windshield toward a straight desert road, dry roadside land, distant utility poles, and a pale car hood at the bottom edge. — Straight desert highway seen from inside a moving car.

1958 Las Vegas-area road view from inside a moving car, with the car hood and side mirror visible as a tumbleweed or brush passes ahead on the desert highway. — Tumbleweed appears ahead on the desert road.

A 1958 Las Vegas-area 8mm frame shows a forward windshield view along a two-lane desert road, with the pale car hood, right-side mirror, utility poles, and dry roadside terrain visible. — In-car view along a sparse desert highway.

End frame from the 1958 Las Vegas-area clip, looking over the car hood as the desert road extends past scattered bare trees or brush and open roadside land. — Desert road recedes past sparse roadside brush.

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