Nevada USA-1961: Passing View Of Mountains And Lake On A Sunny Day

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationNevada, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Passing View Of Mountains And Lake On A Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a passing view from a moving vehicle through the Nevada desert. The camera pans across a vast, sun-drenched landscape featuring a wide, flat lake or salt flat under a pale sky, with distant mountains forming a hazy blue silhouette. Sparse desert shrubs line the roadside, and the motion blur of the foreground road emphasizes the journey. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a slightly faded quality, evoking a nostalgic 1960s Americana road trip.

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: 123733183

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: 1961 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: 1960s Nevada road-trip footage suited for documentary inserts about desert travel, western landscapes, or home-movie views from a moving car.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-century leisure travel through Nevada, with era cues coming mainly from the 8mm home-movie stock, faded color, and roadside filming style.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves a visitor-shot passing view, where the camera records the landscape casually through motion rather than staging a scenic overlook.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark roadside foreground, sparse desert shrubs, pale sky, distant blue mountains, a flat lake or salt-flat expanse, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, color fading, gate edges, and motion blur that mark it as physical home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel insert, geographic transition, road-trip cutaway, or memory beat between broader Nevada or desert sequences.
Historical context: The view reflects a roadside encounter with open western terrain, emphasizing distance, aridity, and automobile travel without identifying a specific landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and location identification separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1961 Nevada 8mm desert road footage, vintage home movie mountains and lake, and moving car view western landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Nevada 1961 travel footage, and then with broader 1960s desert road or western landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Nevada 8mm frame showing a moving roadside view of desert shrubs, distant blue mountains, and a pale lake or salt flat. — A blurred roadside foreground gives way to sparse desert plants and hazy mountains beyond a flat basin.

1961 Nevada roadside frame with a hazy mountain ridge, pale lake or salt-flat area, sparse scrub, and motion-blurred road edge. — The moving vehicle view opens across scrub and a light-toned basin toward a blue mountain ridge.

1961 Nevada 8mm view across a flat lake or salt-flat basin, with distant mountains and blurred roadside vegetation in front. — A broad pale basin and distant mountains fill the frame as the foreground slips by in motion blur.

1961 Nevada home-movie frame showing a passing desert road edge, scattered scrub, a pale basin, and distant blue mountains. — The final frame keeps the road and scrub in motion while the mountains remain a hazy backdrop.

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