Alaska-1946: Snow-Capped Mountains with Telephone Pole

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

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Snow-Capped Mountains with Telephone Pole — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a rugged Alaskan landscape with snow-dusted mountains under a clear blue sky. A wooden telephone pole stands prominently in the frame, with sparse evergreen trees and melting snow patches visible on the slopes. The footage, viewed through a window frame, shows slight motion blur and natural film grain, evoking a sense of quiet isolation and early 20th-century Americana. The scene suggests a remote journey through the wilderness, with the pole serving as a lone marker in the vast terrain.

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: 124549566

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: Useful for 1940s Alaska documentary edits needing a brief rural infrastructure or mountain-travel cutaway from original 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The wooden utility pole, sparse roadside growth, and color 8mm texture may show mid-1940s travel through a remote Alaskan mountain corridor.
Home-movie behavior: The framing feels filmed in passing from a vehicle or through a window, giving the scene an unstaged traveler viewpoint rather than a composed landscape study.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wooden telephone pole, blue sky, snow-streaked mountains, evergreen trees, rocky ground, dry grasses, and dark window or film-edge borders.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, slight blur, uneven exposure, and dark frame edges give the clip a physical 8mm home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or establishing cutaway for remote travel, infrastructure, thawing snow, or Alaskan landscape context.
Historical context: The footage visually connects wilderness scenery with a simple communications pole, suggesting remote settlement or travel routes without identifying a specific road or community.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright status and any location or property implications should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Researcher matches include 1940s Alaska 8mm mountain footage, vintage telephone pole in wilderness, melting snow caps, and rural utility line home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Alaska travel views, then broader themes of rural infrastructure, mountains, snowmelt, and postwar home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Alaska 8mm frame showing a wooden telephone pole near evergreen slopes and snow-streaked mountains under clear sky. — A roadside telephone pole stands against a rugged mountain slope with traces of snow.

1946 Alaska home-movie frame with a wooden utility pole centered before a rocky, snow-dusted mountain ridge. — A utility pole rises in the foreground while a mountain ridge fills the background.

1946 Alaska 8mm view of a telephone pole, sparse evergreens, dry grass, and a snow-marked mountain slope. — Sparse trees and grass pass below a telephone pole with the mountain slope behind it.

1946 Alaska home-movie frame showing a tall telephone pole near grasses, evergreens, rocky ground, and a distant mountain ridge. — A tall pole stands in a grassy, rocky clearing below an evergreen-lined mountain ridge.

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