Utah USA-1939: Driving Through A Tunnel

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

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Driving Through A Tunnel — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a scenic drive through Utah's rugged mountain terrain. The footage, viewed from a moving vehicle, shows a winding road cutting through arid hillsides with sparse green trees and layered rock formations. The natural light highlights the earthy tones of the landscape, with a clear blue sky visible in the final frame. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, offering authentic archival footage of mid-century American road travel.

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: 124763445

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 road footage for documentary or editorial sequences needing Utah desert canyon driving, tunnel approach, and period travel atmosphere.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1930s American road travel through arid Utah terrain, with narrow paved roadway, exposed rock cuts, and sparse roadside vegetation visible from inside a moving car.
Home-movie behavior: The footage carries a visitor-shot passenger perspective, recording the road and canyon walls as travel experience rather than staged scenery.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a paved mountain road, pale layered rock slopes, sparse green trees and shrubs, canyon walls, blue sky, vehicle-window framing, and a dark tunnel or interior edge.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, handheld vehicle motion, mild blur, dust specks, uneven exposure, and warm color shift that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short travel insert, road-trip transition, tunnel approach cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence about Utah landscapes or early automobile tourism.
Historical context: The view documents a motorist's encounter with rugged western terrain, emphasizing road access through canyon country without identifying a specific landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any roadway or land-use permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1930s Utah road trip 8mm footage, vintage home movie canyon drive, desert mountain road, and car passenger view tunnel approach.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other Utah 1939 road footage, and finally with broader vintage American driving and canyon landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 8mm home-movie view from a moving car, showing a paved road curving past pale layered rock and sparse green shrubs in Utah. — Roadside rock slope and sparse vegetation pass by from inside a moving vehicle.

A moving 8mm passenger view of arid Utah rock formations, low shrubs, and a roadway edge, with blur from the car's motion. — Layered rock and desert vegetation slide past the road during the drive.

Utah canyon roadside filmed from a moving vehicle, with pale rock layers, scattered shrubs, and heavy motion blur in the 8mm frame. — The camera passes close to pale canyon rock and roadside brush.

1939 Utah road view approaching a rocky canyon or tunnel area, with blue sky, roadside wall, shrubs, and a dark vehicle interior edge in frame. — The road leads toward rugged canyon walls under a clear blue sky.

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