Las Vegas USA-1958: View Of The Flat And Empty Desert Landscape

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

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View Of The Flat And Empty Desert Landscape — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a vast, flat desert landscape under a pale blue sky. The view, likely from a moving vehicle, shows a barren expanse of sandy terrain with distant rock formations and sparse desert scrub. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, grainy texture, and slightly faded color tones with a distinct purple cast. A small object, possibly a bird or debris, briefly appears in the sky. The scene evokes a sense of quiet isolation and mid-century Americana travel.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123609239

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 Las Vegas-area travel or desert-road sequences needing quiet 8mm landscape atmosphere without visible people or buildings.
Period detail: The frame may show mid-century travel footage through open Nevada desert, with no visible vehicles, signage, structures, or landmarks to narrow the setting beyond the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, observing the passing desert from a distant, unstaged vantage rather than composing a formal scenic view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pale blue sky, flat sandy terrain, distant low ridges, sparse scrub, rocky foreground, and dark 8mm frame borders.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, faded color, purple cast, and slight exposure variation give the scan a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a desert establishing insert, road-trip transition, quiet cutaway, or memory beat between Las Vegas travel scenes.
Historical context: The footage reflects the visual emptiness around a desert journey, with open land and distant formations suggesting travel through a sparsely developed landscape.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any location-sensitive use separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 8mm Las Vegas desert landscape, Nevada desert home movie, mid-century road trip cutaway, and empty desert horizon footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Las Vegas or Nevada 1958 material, then broader 1950s desert travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Las Vegas-area 8mm frame showing open desert, low distant ridges, sparse scrub, and dark film borders. — Open desert landscape with distant low ridges and a pale sky.

1958 Las Vegas-area 8mm frame with flat sandy desert, low rock formations, sparse vegetation, and faded color. — Barren desert plain with low formations on the horizon.

1958 Las Vegas-area 8mm view across scrubby desert foreground toward low horizontal ridges beneath a pale sky. — Scrubby foreground and distant ridges across an open desert view.

1958 Las Vegas-area 8mm frame showing a wide desert basin, scattered brush, distant low ridges, and purple-toned film color. — Wide desert basin with scattered brush and low ridges in the distance.

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