Las Vegas USA-1958: Driving On A Black Top Two Lane Road In The Desert With

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

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Driving On A Black Top Two Lane Road In The Desert With — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a first-person view of driving through a vast desert landscape. The footage shows a long, straight two-lane highway stretching into the horizon under a clear blue sky, with sparse vegetation and distant mountains. The perspective is from inside a vehicle, with the car's chrome emblem visible in the foreground. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic sense of mid-century American road 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: 123609041

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: Supports 1950s archival requests for American desert highway travel, road-trip transitions, and mid-century Nevada landscape inserts.
Period detail: The straight paved road, sparse desert vegetation, and open automobile viewpoint are consistent with late-1950s home-movie travel footage near Las Vegas.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged passenger or driver viewpoint, recording ordinary movement through desert country rather than a composed scenic postcard.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a two-lane blacktop road, pale roadside cuts, blue sky, distant low mountains, dry desert flats, sparse shrubs, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, blue color drift, visible grain, gate edges, and slight motion blur that preserve the tactile home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel insert, road-trip transition, desert approach cutaway, or memory beat between 1950s Western travel scenes.
Historical context: The footage visually situates automobile travel in an open desert corridor, with broad roads and sparse development visible in the selected frames.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible in these frames, but copyright and location verification still require normal archive review.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1958 8mm Las Vegas desert highway footage, vintage Nevada road travel, and mid-century American road-trip home movies.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Las Vegas or Nevada travel clips, then broader desert highway and road-trip footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 8mm Las Vegas-area travel view showing a straight blacktop road through open desert with low mountains in the distance. — A two-lane desert highway stretches forward beneath a clear sky.

Forward-facing 1958 Nevada desert road view with blacktop pavement, pale roadside slopes, and open horizon. — The road continues through pale desert cuts toward a distant horizon.

1958 Las Vegas-area desert landscape seen from a moving vehicle, with dry flats and low mountains across the horizon. — A broad desert plain and low mountains pass beside the moving vehicle.

Late-1950s 8mm travel frame showing open Nevada desert, distant hills, and roadside foreground from a moving car. — Distant hills line the horizon beyond the open desert foreground.

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