Arizona USA-1939: Car Drives Desert Highway Past Pylon and Dam

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationArizona, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Car Drives Desert Highway Past Pylon and Dam — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1939 captures a car driving along a winding desert highway in Arizona. The footage, shot through a window frame, shows a rugged, arid landscape with rocky hills under a clear blue sky. A tall electrical pylon stands prominently on a hilltop, while a massive concrete dam curves through the canyon in the final frames. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking mid-century Americana and the era's infrastructure development.

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: 124761107

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: 1939 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: Arizona, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for requests needing late-1930s 8mm Arizona road travel, desert infrastructure, or dam-area cutaways for documentary, museum, education, or editorial projects.
Period detail: The car-window framing, 8mm color, sparse desert road, electrical pylon, and concrete dam structure support a late-1930s travel-film reading based on the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a traveler filming from inside a moving car, with window edges and passing roadway shaping the view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rocky desert hills, blue sky, a steel electrical pylon, a winding highway, concrete dam walls, canyon rock, and dark window framing.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, soft focus, mild exposure shifts, saturated color, and handheld travel movement that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a road-trip insert, infrastructure cutaway, desert transition, or brief memory beat between broader 1930s travel or public-works scenes.
Historical context: The frames place automotive travel beside large-scale desert infrastructure without identifying a specific landmark beyond the Arizona location supplied in metadata.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or landmark permissions should be checked for the intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1930s Arizona 8mm desert highway footage, vintage car-window travel film, electrical pylon in desert, and dam canyon home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Arizona material, then broader desert road, dam, utility, and infrastructure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Arizona 8mm travel footage shows a steel electrical pylon above a rocky desert slope, framed by dark car-window edges. — Electrical pylon rises over a rocky Arizona desert hillside.

A steel pylon stands on a dry Arizona hillside under blue sky, seen from a moving car in 1939 8mm footage. — Roadside view of a desert pylon from inside a vehicle.

Arizona 8mm frame shows a curving concrete dam structure and road set into rugged canyon rock. — Concrete dam and roadway curve through rocky desert terrain.

A 1939 Arizona travel frame looks through a car window toward a concrete dam wall and canyon roadway. — Vehicle-window view toward a dam and canyon road.

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