Utah USA-1939: Landscape With Orange Pointy Rocks And A Mountain Full Of Trees

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

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Landscape With Orange Pointy Rocks And A Mountain Full... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures the dramatic hoodoos of Utah's red rock landscape. Pointy orange sandstone formations rise sharply against a backdrop of dense evergreen forests covering the mountains. The footage, with its characteristic film grain and slightly faded colors, offers a nostalgic glimpse of the American West. The camera pans slowly across the rugged terrain, highlighting the natural beauty and geological wonder of the region. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical content, and nostalgic projects.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: 124763392

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 (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Utah, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s 8mm home-movie footage of Utah red rock scenery for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences about the American West and natural landscapes.
Period detail: The visible clues are mostly the film stock and color rendering, with no people, vehicles, signs, or built features to independently date the scene beyond the supplied 1939 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint, slowly scanning distant hoodoos and forested slopes as a traveler records a scenic stop rather than a staged production view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include orange sandstone hoodoos, pale rock caps, dark evergreen-covered hillsides, ridgelines, shadowed gullies, and black 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm focus, pronounced grain, faded color, slight gate weave, and handheld framing that preserve the texture of a physical home-movie scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, scenic transition, travelogue cutaway, or memory beat for western landscape and road-trip material.
Historical context: The scene documents a prewar home-movie encounter with Utah's red rock formations and forested high country, without visible social activity or infrastructure in frame.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright status and any location-based permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1939 Utah 8mm landscape, vintage red rock hoodoos, home movie American West scenery, and 1930s sandstone formations.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Utah 1939 travel footage, then with broader vintage American West landscape and national-park-style scenery.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Utah 8mm frame showing orange sandstone hoodoos with pale caps and a tree-covered mountain slope behind them. — Orange sandstone spires rise beneath a dark evergreen hillside.

1939 Utah 8mm view of layered orange hoodoos and pale stone tops set against dense green mountain forest. — A distant line of hoodoos sits in front of forested mountain terrain.

1939 Utah home-movie frame with orange sandstone walls in the foreground and dark wooded hills rising behind. — Orange rock walls fill the foreground below a wooded hillside.

1939 Utah 8mm frame showing bright orange sandstone spires beside darker ledges with forested hills behind. — Tall sandstone spires catch the light beside darker red rock ledges.

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