Utah USA-1939: Shot Of Animals In The Distance Then Small Lake With Woods In

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

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Shot Of Animals In The Distance Then Small Lake With... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a serene Utah landscape. The sequence opens with a distant view of dark animal silhouettes moving across a grassy plain under a deep blue sky, then transitions to a calm lake reflecting surrounding trees and hills. The footage features classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and natural film imperfections, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic slice of mid-20th century Americana is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 124763238

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 Utah home-movie requests needing rural wildlife, open landscape, or quiet lake scenery for documentary or educational use.
Period detail: The frames may show late-1930s amateur color 8mm travel footage, with no visible buildings, vehicles, clothing, signage, or landmarks to narrow the period beyond the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes distant animals and a small reflective lake from a quiet traveler or family-home-movie viewpoint rather than a staged wildlife setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a grassy plain, distant dark animal silhouettes, deep blue sky, a small lake, bare trees, low hills, reflected water, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, blue-purple color shift, exposure variation, and contact-print frame edges that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a rural establishing insert, wildlife cutaway, reflective landscape transition, or brief memory beat between travel scenes.
Historical context: The footage places rural Utah scenery within an amateur travel record, showing open land and water without visible modern infrastructure in these frames.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or clearly identifiable private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and land-access questions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Search match phrases include 1939 Utah 8mm landscape, distant animals on plain, vintage home movie lake, rural wildlife cutaway, and small lake with woods.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1939 Utah material, then with broader 1930s rural landscape, wildlife, lake, and travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Utah 8mm frame showing small dark animal silhouettes far across an open grassy plain under a saturated blue sky. — Distant animals move across an open Utah plain.

A soft 8mm view of distant dark animals near the horizon of a Utah grassland, with strong blue color shift in the sky. — Small animal shapes appear near the horizon line.

1939 Utah home-movie frame with distant animals spread across a softly focused field, framed by visible 8mm borders. — Animals remain visible as small dark forms across the field.

1939 Utah 8mm frame showing a small reflective lake bordered by bare trees, brush, and low hills in soft light. — A small lake reflects trees and hills along the shore.

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