Utah USA-1939: Herd of Animals Roaming Desert Wilderness

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationUtah, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Utah

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Herd of Animals Roaming Desert Wilderness — Clip Details

UTAH USA-1939: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a distant herd of animals, likely bison or cattle, moving across a vast desert landscape under a deep purple sky. The grainy, high-contrast footage shows the animals as dark silhouettes traversing the open plain, with the film's characteristic grain and color shift suggesting an early color process. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse of wildlife in the American West during the late 1930s, evoking a sense of historical nostalgia and untamed nature.

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: 124763232

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: Utah, 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 1930s American West archive requests needing a brief wildlife or grazing-animal landscape insert from Utah home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frames may show late-1930s 8mm color home-movie material, with a distant animal line crossing open Utah desert terrain and no modern structures visible.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational value of a traveler or family camera pausing on far-off animals rather than staging action for the lens.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a low desert horizon, distant dark animals, open scrubland, deep blue-purple sky, soft focus, frame bars, and film grain.
Film character: The scan carries dense 8mm grain, color shift, high contrast, soft focus, and visible frame edges that signal original small-gauge home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short cutaway, transition, or memory beat for western landscape, animal movement, or Depression-era travel context.
Historical context: The scene visually places animals in a broad arid landscape, suggesting rural or wilderness observation without identifying the species or a specific site.
Research note: No people, logos, music, or private property are visible, but species identification, copyright status, and location specificity should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Search match phrases include 1930s Utah 8mm animal herd, American West desert home movie, distant bison or cattle footage, and vintage western landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel travel footage, then Utah or 1939 material, then broader American West wildlife, ranching, or desert landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Utah home-movie frame showing a far-off herd-like line of animals across open desert under a blue-purple sky. — A distant animal group appears along the horizon of an open desert plain.

Distant animals, possibly bison or cattle, appear as dark marks on the Utah desert horizon in soft 8mm color footage. — Small animals are visible as dark silhouettes across the far horizon.

1939 Utah frame with a loose herd-like line of distant animals above scrubland, framed by visible 8mm film edges. — The herd-like group remains far from the camera on the desert horizon.

Final 1939 Utah home-movie frame showing distant animal silhouettes on an open desert plain under a saturated blue-purple sky. — A far-off group of animals sits or moves along the horizon line.

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