Nevada USA-1960: Dry Grasslands Under Cloudy Sky

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Year1960
Decade1960s
LocationNevada, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Dry Grasslands Under Cloudy Sky — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1960, this clip captures a vast, desolate Nevada landscape viewed from a moving vehicle. The frame shows a flat, dry grassy plain under a cloudy sky, with a distant horizon line and a simple fence line running across the foreground. The footage exhibits natural film grain, slight motion blur, and subtle scratches, characteristic of vintage home movie footage. The muted color palette features earthy browns, pale greens, and a gray-blue sky, evoking a quiet, nostalgic atmosphere of mid-century American travel.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123742872

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: Useful for 1960s archival requests needing a Nevada road-travel landscape insert, rural West cutaway, or quiet desert-grassland transition.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-century roadside travel through open Nevada grassland, with a simple fence line and broad horizon as the main visible era clues.
Home-movie behavior: The moving-vehicle viewpoint gives the clip an unstaged home-movie record of passing through a sparsely settled landscape rather than a composed scenic shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dry grassland, low fence posts, a flat distant horizon, cloudy sky, roadside foreground, film gate edges, and minor surface marks.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, muted color, grain, slight motion blur, exposure variation, and small scratches that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel insert, landscape cutaway, memory beat, or transitional shot between road-trip and rural West material.
Historical context: The scene documents open land and roadside fencing in Nevada without showing people, buildings, vehicles, landmarks, or identifiable events.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, location verification, and any broader property or access questions still require review.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1960 Nevada 8mm landscape, vintage home movie dry grassland, cloudy desert horizon, rural roadside fence, and American West travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel travel footage, then other Nevada 1960 material, then broader 1960s American West roadsides, desert landscapes, and home-movie travel views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960 Nevada 8mm frame showing dry grassland from a roadside viewpoint, with fence posts, muted sky, and a flat horizon. — Open Nevada grassland and fence line pass beneath a broad cloudy sky.

1960 Nevada home-movie frame of sparse roadside grassland, low fencing, and a wide cloudy sky over a distant horizon. — A low fence and scattered brush cross the foreground of an open Nevada plain.

Moving 8mm view of Nevada grassland in 1960, with a blurred roadside edge, low fence posts, and layered clouds. — Roadside motion softens the foreground while the open grassland stretches to the horizon.

1960 Nevada 8mm frame with a broad dry plain, pale cloudy sky, dark distant horizon, and soft roadside grasses. — The landscape opens into a wide dry plain under a muted cloudy sky.

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