Las Vegas USA-1958: Sweeping Desert Landscape With Rocky Hills And Pale Sky

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

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Sweeping Desert Landscape With Rocky Hills And Pale Sky — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping desert landscape under a pale blue sky. The rugged terrain features rolling hills, rocky outcrops, and scattered patches of white, possibly snow or salt, creating a stark, otherworldly beauty. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color shifts, with a distinct purple and blue tint, offering a nostalgic glimpse of a remote, arid region. The camera pans slowly across the vast, empty expanse, emphasizing the isolation and natural grandeur of the American Southwest.

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: 123609157

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 archival requests needing a brief American Southwest desert landscape insert, travel transition, or establishing cutaway without people or modern development visible.
Period detail: The visible period clues are mainly the 8mm home-movie color, grain, gate edges, and slow pan style rather than identifiable buildings, vehicles, clothing, or signage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint, scanning the open terrain from a distant overlook with no staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pale blue sky, low purple-brown hills, eroded desert flats, rocky ridges, bright white ground patches, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, color shift toward blue and purple, and dark contact-frame borders that add archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quiet establishing shot, landscape cutaway, road-trip transition, or reflective memory beat for desert travel or Western terrain.
Historical context: The footage documents an open arid landscape near the Las Vegas metadata location, with no visible urban development or identifiable landmarks in these frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any broader property or land-use issues should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Search matches include 1958 8mm Las Vegas desert landscape, vintage Nevada rocky hills, home movie Southwest panorama, and pale sky arid terrain.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Las Vegas or Nevada travel footage, then broader 1950s American Southwest desert landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 8mm home-movie view near Las Vegas showing rocky desert terrain, distant hills, pale sky, and dark frame edges. — Open desert terrain stretches toward low hills under a pale blue sky.

1958 Las Vegas-area desert panorama with broad rocky flats, low ridgelines, pale sky, and small white patches on the ground. — The pan continues across a broad basin of rocky ridges and distant hills.

Vintage 8mm view of Las Vegas-area arid terrain with low hills, rough ground, pale sky, and bright white patches possibly snow or salt. — Uneven desert ground and low hills fill the frame as the camera sweeps past.

1958 8mm Las Vegas-area landscape showing open desert, scattered white patches, and a mesa-like rocky ridge on the right. — A mesa-like ridge appears at the right edge of the open desert view.

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