Alaska-1946: Bridge In Mountains On A Clear Day

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

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Bridge In Mountains On A Clear Day — Clip Details

ALASKA-1946: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a snow-covered road leading to a suspension bridge in a remote Alaskan landscape. A weathered sign reading "PEACE RIVER" stands beside the road, marking the location. The bridge's yellow steel towers rise against a clear blue sky, with snow-dusted banks and frozen water visible. The footage shows a forward-moving perspective, likely from a vehicle, with the characteristic grain and color palette of 1940s Super 8 film. This archival clip evokes a sense of mid-century exploration and the rugged beauty of the American frontier.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124550165

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s editorial requests needing remote northern road travel, bridge approaches, or archival vehicle-perspective landscape inserts.
Period detail: The steel suspension bridge, snow-covered road, roadside sign, and 8mm color stock may show mid-century highway travel in a remote Alaskan setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot or traveler-shot viewpoint, moving forward toward the bridge from a road rather than presenting a staged scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a snowy road, yellow bridge towers, suspension cables, pale banks, blue sky, dark frame edges, and a sign reading "PEACE RIVER."
Film character: The footage carries 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and rounded frame edges from the scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel insert, geographic transition, infrastructure cutaway, or quiet memory beat for northern road journeys.
Historical context: The scene provides visual context for mid-century road access across a wintry river or ravine, without showing traffic, workers, or local residents.
Research note: No people are visible, but the readable place sign and bridge identification should be reviewed separately from copyright and property considerations.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1940s 8mm Alaska bridge footage, snowy road approach, Peace River sign, suspension bridge, and home-movie travel landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Alaska travel footage, then broader 1940s northern road and bridge material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 8mm frame of a snowy road leading toward a steel suspension bridge, with a roadside sign reading Peace River. — A snow-covered road leads toward the bridge, with the Peace River sign visible at the roadside.

1946 8mm frame showing a forward road view toward yellow steel bridge towers in a snowy Alaskan landscape. — The road rises toward the bridge deck, with steel towers and suspension cables ahead.

1946 8mm frame from a moving vehicle nearing a suspension bridge over a snow-covered northern landscape. — The camera nears the bridge entrance, framed by snowbanks and pale winter terrain.

1946 8mm frame of a snow-lined road at the approach to a yellow suspension bridge in the Alaska footage. — The bridge tower fills more of the frame as the road reaches the approach.

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