Utah USA-1939: Sandstone Cliffs at Zion National Park

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

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Sandstone Cliffs at Zion National Park — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a breathtaking view of Zion National Park in Utah. The camera frames towering sandstone cliffs and rugged mountain peaks through a natural frame of lush green trees and dense foliage. Sunlight illuminates the vibrant greenery in the foreground, contrasting with the deep purple and brown rock formations under a clear blue sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering a nostalgic glimpse of America's natural beauty during the late 1930s. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical content, and nostalgic storytelling.

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: 124763510

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: 1930s 8mm Utah landscape footage suited to documentary inserts, park history sequences, travel retrospectives, or archival cutaways of western sandstone scenery.
Period detail: The frames show color 8mm home-movie imagery of canyon cliffs, trees, and bright daylight, with the 1939 date supported by clip metadata rather than visible signage or dated objects.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint, holding a scenic canyon view through trees as a personal travel record rather than a staged landscape composition.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include steep sandstone walls, flat-topped cliffs, dense green trees, scrubby foreground foliage, blue sky, and a dark natural tree-framed edge.
Film character: The footage carries soft 8mm focus, saturated color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief scenic insert, location-establishing cutaway, transition between travel moments, or quiet memory beat in a park or western landscape sequence.
Historical context: The view documents a leisure-travel encounter with a Utah canyon landscape, emphasizing natural scenery rather than people, vehicles, signage, or built infrastructure.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but users should still assess copyright status, location permissions, and any project-specific landscape or park-use requirements.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1930s Utah 8mm canyon scenery, Zion home movie cliffs and trees, vintage western landscape footage, and prewar national park travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1939 Utah or Zion-area footage, and finally with broader vintage canyon, national park, or western travel landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Utah 8mm frame showing tall sandstone cliffs beyond green trees and dense foliage in bright daylight. — Canyon cliffs rise behind sunlit trees and brush.

1939 Utah home-movie view of distant sandstone walls framed by trees, with soft focus and saturated color. — Trees form a natural frame around distant canyon walls.

1939 Utah 8mm frame with towering rock formations behind a band of green trees and brush. — Rock walls loom above the green canyon floor.

1939 Utah landscape frame showing sandstone cliffs, dense trees, and bright sky in soft color 8mm footage. — A final scenic view of cliffs and dense canyon vegetation.

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