New York City-1958: Cables Into A Mountain

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationNew York City, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 New York City

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Cables Into A Mountain — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures rugged mountain rock formations with power lines cutting across the frame. The footage shows a natural landscape viewed through a window or vehicle frame, with visible film grain and slight color fading typical of Super 8 home movies. The sequence transitions from close-up rock textures to a wider view of a forested hillside under an overcast sky. This archival clip offers authentic 1950s Americana footage with a nostalgic, documentary feel, perfect for historical or editorial projects.

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: 124558698

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 1256 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: #8
Reel-level year note: 1957-1958
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1958 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: New York City, New York, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s archival requests needing a brief outdoor infrastructure or mountain-landscape cutaway from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century visitor footage of rocky terrain seen through a vehicle or window frame, with overhead cables crossing the view.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged travel-view perspective, as if the camera operator is looking out from a moving car, tram, or window toward the rocks and hillside.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pale rock formations, diagonal utility or cable lines, a dark window or film-frame divider, a shaded hillside, brush, and overcast sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, color fading, uneven exposure, and dark frame edges that contribute to its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or memory beat for travel, infrastructure in landscape, or rugged outdoor setting sequences.
Historical context: The footage places cables and rocky terrain in the same view, suggesting a period travel record of a natural landscape intersected by utility or transport infrastructure.
Research note: No people, logos, or identifiable private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property or infrastructure permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely researcher matches include 1958 8mm mountain rocks with cables, vintage home movie landscape through window, and 1950s outdoor infrastructure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then with confirmed New York or 1958 travel footage, then with broader rocky landscape and cable-infrastructure material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 8mm frame showing rugged rock formations with a diagonal cable crossing the view. — Rocky formations fill the frame while a cable cuts diagonally across the scene.

Vintage 8mm view of a tall rocky outcrop with diagonal cables and brush near the base. — A closer view of rock faces is crossed by dark overhead cables.

Underexposed 8mm frame showing a sloped hillside with sparse trees or brush. — The view shifts to a darker hillside, with terrain and vegetation barely visible.

Overexposed closing frame with pale sky, a faint hillside edge, and dark film borders. — A bright, washed-out sky dominates the frame with only a faint landscape edge below.

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