Nevada USA-1960: Leafless Tree in Desolate Field

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Year1960
Decade1960s
LocationNevada, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Leafless Tree in Desolate Field — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1960, this vintage home movie captures a passing view from a moving vehicle across a vast, barren landscape in Nevada. The frame shows a desolate, flat field under a pale blue sky, with sparse, leafless trees and a lone utility pole appearing and receding. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, film grain, and slight motion blur, conveying a sense of quiet isolation and mid-century Americana. The muted color palette of browns and faded blues enhances the nostalgic, archival feel of this road trip memory.

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: 123742654

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: 1960 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: Supports requests for 1960s Nevada road-travel atmosphere, rural landscape inserts, or mid-century home-movie views from a moving vehicle.
Period detail: The sparse roadside utility poles, open fields, and faded 8mm color may show a mid-century rural highway environment, consistent with the 1960 Nevada metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches the landscape pass from a moving vehicle, giving the clip an unstaged road-trip perspective rather than a composed scenic view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pale sky, flat brown fields, leafless shrubs or small trees, distant horizon, roadside utility poles, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm focus, muted color, gate edges, dust specks, light flicker, and motion blur that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a road-trip insert, geographic transition, rural cutaway, or quiet memory beat between stronger narrative scenes.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for open western U.S. travel landscapes without showing identifiable people, buildings, businesses, or named landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but copyright status and any location-specific property concerns should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1960 Nevada 8mm road view, vintage barren field from car, rural western U.S. home movie, and passing utility pole landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1960 Nevada road scenes, then broader barren-field or western landscape travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960 Nevada 8mm road view with a utility pole beside a flat brown field under a pale blue sky. — A utility pole and sparse brush pass in the foreground of an open rural field.

Soft 8mm view across a flat Nevada field with distant leafless shrubs and a broad pale sky. — The moving camera looks across an open field toward a low line of shrubs on the horizon.

Muted 1960 Nevada landscape frame showing a blurred brown field and low horizon from a moving vehicle. — A soft, blurred stretch of field fills the lower frame beneath an empty sky.

Passing 8mm road view in Nevada with distant utility poles, scrubby brush, and a flat rural horizon. — Distant utility poles and brush appear along the horizon as the vehicle continues past open land.

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