Nevada USA-1959: Scenic View Of An Open Field With Mountains In The Distance As

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationNevada, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Scenic View Of An Open Field With Mountains In The... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a scenic drive through Nevada's arid landscape. The view from a moving vehicle shows a vast open field with sparse desert vegetation, a long road stretching into the distance, and a range of mountains under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds. The footage features natural film grain, slight motion blur, and the characteristic color palette of mid-century Kodachrome, evoking a sense of Americana and mid-century 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: 123622207

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1959 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Nevada, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Nevada 8mm home-movie road footage for productions needing a brief desert travel cutaway, scenic insert, or mid-century American road-trip transition.
Period detail: The 1959 metadata is supported by the clip record, while the visible road edge, utility poles, fence posts, and color home-movie stock fit a mid-century roadside travel view.
Home-movie behavior: The moving-vehicle viewpoint gives the clip unstaged value as a traveler’s passing glance across open Nevada desert toward distant mountains.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a paved road shoulder, dry open field, fence posts, utility poles, distant mountains, scattered clouds, and a small roadside sign or structure.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, motion blur from travel, visible grain, rounded frame edges, and slightly faded blue-green Kodachrome-era color.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, travel transition, landscape cutaway, or memory beat between road-trip or Western location scenes.
Historical context: The clip visually places mid-century automobile travel in an arid Nevada landscape without identifying a specific highway, town, landmark, or event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location, and any roadside property or sign details should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1959 Nevada 8mm desert road, 1950s home movie mountains, vintage road trip landscape, and arid field from moving car.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other 1959 Nevada travel views, then broader 1950s desert-road and mountain-landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Nevada 8mm frame showing an arid roadside field, fence posts, distant mountains, and a bright sky with scattered clouds. — A moving roadside view looks across dry open ground toward a low mountain range under scattered clouds.

1959 Nevada travel view from a moving vehicle, with a roadside fence, sparse desert vegetation, mountains, and clouds. — Fence posts and a road shoulder pass in the foreground as mountains stretch across the horizon.

1959 Nevada 8mm roadside frame with utility poles, a fence line, open desert ground, and distant mountains under clouds. — A utility pole and fence line mark the roadside as the camera passes an open desert landscape.

1959 Nevada road scene from a moving vehicle, showing lane markings, desert field, distant mountains, utility poles, and a small roadside sign. — The road curves through the frame beside open desert ground, with mountains and a small roadside sign beyond the fence.

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