Alaska-1946: Travelling On A Moderately Forested Road

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationAlaska, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Alaska

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Travelling On A Moderately Forested Road — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a journey through a remote Alaskan landscape. The view, framed by the camera's dark borders, shows a vast, hazy sky above a dark, silhouetted horizon. Power lines stretch across the middle ground, indicating a road trip through a sparsely populated, forested region. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and minor damage, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 124549447

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 1178 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: 2
Reel-level year note: 1946
Reel-level location note: alaska
Date: 1946 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: Alaska, 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1940s Alaska road-travel footage for productions needing a brief archival landscape insert or route-setting cutaway.
Period detail: The distant utility poles, open road edge, and sparse tree line may show mid-1940s travel infrastructure in rural Alaska.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged passenger-view glimpse from a moving trip, valuing the route and horizon more than a planned scenic composition.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include hazy sky, dark road or land bands, utility poles, low hills, tree silhouettes, film borders, and surface scratches.
Film character: Soft 8mm color, gate edges, flicker, scratches, and underexposed silhouettes give the short scene a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a road-trip transition, Alaska establishing insert, memory beat, or quiet connective cutaway between journey scenes.
Historical context: The view suggests remote travel through a lightly developed landscape where utility lines and roadways interrupt forested or open terrain.
Research note: No people, brands, or clear private property are visible, but copyright status and any location-specific use should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1940s Alaska road footage, 8mm home movie travel, rural utility poles, forested road horizon, and vintage journey cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then 1946 Alaska material, then broader vintage road-travel or remote-landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Alaska 8mm frame showing hazy sky, silhouetted land, and utility poles along a road-like horizon. — Utility poles cross a dark rural horizon beneath a pale blue sky.

1946 Alaska road-travel frame with a pale sky, dark land band, and faint roadway texture inside visible 8mm borders. — A dark band of land divides the pale sky from a faint road surface.

1946 Alaska 8mm view of utility poles, low hills, and sparse trees seen from a moving road perspective. — Low poles and tree silhouettes sit against a washed blue sky.

1946 Alaska road scene with utility poles, distant hills, dark tree line, and visible scratches on 8mm film. — Roadside poles recede across a low, dark Alaskan horizon.

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