Utah USA-1939: Man Filming Mountain Dirt Road Trees Sunny Day Vintage

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

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Man Filming Mountain Dirt Road Trees Sunny Day Vintage — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a man filming a mountainous landscape in Utah. The clip opens with a view through a window frame, showing a rocky cliff face under a bright sky. The scene shifts to a man in a brown jacket and light pants standing on a dirt road, holding a camera and appearing to adjust it. Lush green trees line the background under sunny conditions. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic 1930s home movie is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or retro-themed projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news and educational productions. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or branded content, or broadcast promotion.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124763457

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news and educational productions. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or branded content, or broadcast promotion.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s Utah home-movie footage suited for documentary inserts about travel, amateur filmmaking, mountain roads, or personal vacation records.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1930s leisure travel, with a handheld camera, simple outdoor clothing, dirt road, trees, and pale rocky slopes visible in Utah.
Home-movie behavior: A man stands on a sunny dirt road handling a small camera, giving the clip the unstaged value of one home-movie maker filming another.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark window frame, pale cliff face, blue sky, dirt road, green roadside trees, a man in a brown jacket, light trousers, and a small camera.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, dust marks, uneven exposure, and slightly faded color typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, travel-memory beat, camera-in-camera insert, or transition between landscape and personal filming activity.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for private travel and amateur photography in a mountainous Utah setting without identifying a specific landmark or event.
Research note: A visible adult face and likeness may require review, while no logos, music, children, or clearly private property are apparent from the supplied frames.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 Utah 8mm home movie, man with camera on dirt road, mountain travel footage, and amateur filmmaking landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Utah 1939 mountain travel material, then with broader amateur camera and road-trip themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Utah 1939 home-movie frame looking past a dark window frame toward a pale rocky cliff under bright sky. — A rocky mountain face is seen through a dark window or structural frame.

Soft 8mm view of a pale Utah cliff and blue sky, partially obscured by dark vertical framing. — A pale cliff face and sky appear beyond dark vertical frame edges.

In 1939 Utah footage, an adult man stands on a dirt road adjusting a small camera, with trees and rocky ground behind him. — A man handles a small camera while standing on a sunlit dirt road.

Adult man in a brown jacket stands on a Utah dirt road holding a camera, with roadside trees in the background. — The man faces the camera while holding his own camera on the roadside.

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