Utah USA-1939: A Valley Of Rock Formations And Trees With Green Vegetation

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

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A Valley Of Rock Formations And Trees With Green Vegetation — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures the dramatic red rock formations and hoodoos of Utah's canyonlands. The footage reveals towering sandstone spires rising from a rugged valley, surrounded by dense green vegetation and pine trees under a clear blue sky. The warm, saturated colors and natural film grain give the clip a nostalgic, authentic feel, showcasing the raw beauty of the American Southwest in the late 1930s. The camera pans slowly across the landscape, emphasizing the scale and texture of the geological formations.

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: 124763394

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 Utah landscape footage for documentary inserts, regional history sequences, geology programs, travel context, or archival transitions about the American Southwest.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1930s home-movie travel views, with era clues limited to the 8mm color film texture, static scenic framing, and visitor-shot pan across red rock terrain.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the unstaged perspective of a traveler pausing to record a scenic canyon overlook rather than a formally composed survey or promotional view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include red sandstone hoodoos, layered cliffs, dark tree-covered slopes, green valley vegetation, open blue sky, and black film-frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, saturated warm rock color, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that preserve the material character of the original film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a scenic cutaway, establishing insert, transition between travel scenes, or quiet memory beat for Utah and Southwest landscape material.
Historical context: The view documents how a home-movie camera recorded dramatic public landscapes and natural scenery in Utah without visible people, vehicles, signage, or built structures.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but users should still assess copyright status, location identification, and any production-specific property concerns.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 Utah 8mm home movie, vintage canyon landscape, red rock hoodoos, Southwest travel footage, and archival sandstone valley view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Utah material, then broader vintage Southwest canyon, desert landscape, and home-movie travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Utah 8mm frame showing sunlit red rock spires and layered cliffs with dark wooded terrain behind them. — Sunlit sandstone formations rise above a shadowed, tree-covered canyon slope.

1939 Utah landscape frame with clustered sandstone spires, horizontal rock bands, and a dark forested ridge in the background. — Clustered hoodoos and layered cliffs fill the frame beneath a wooded ridge.

1939 Utah 8mm view looking across red rock formations, pale eroded slopes, and dense green vegetation in a canyon valley. — The camera looks across a canyon valley of red rock, pale slopes, and trees.

1939 Utah home-movie frame showing a wider canyon vista with blue sky, pale cliff bands, red spires, and dark vegetation. — A wider vista shows cliff bands, red spires, dark vegetation, and open sky.

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