Utah USA-1939: Desert Landscape with Sand Hills and Mountains

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

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Desert Landscape with Sand Hills and Mountains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a panning view of a vast, arid desert landscape in Utah. The grainy footage shows rolling sand hills under a pale, overcast sky, with distant mountains on the horizon. A lone figure in period clothing briefly appears, standing in the barren terrain. The film exhibits natural wear, including dust spots and scratches, enhancing its authentic archival quality. This raw, unfiltered glimpse of the American West evokes a sense of isolation and timelessness, perfect for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-specific storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124763559

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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 (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

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: 1939 Utah 8mm desert landscape footage suited to documentary inserts, regional history sequences, and visual references for arid American West terrain.
Period detail: The frames show no clear vehicles, signage, or clothing details, so the 1939 attribution rests on supplied metadata rather than visible era markers.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an informal traveler viewpoint, panning across open desert hills and distant mountains from ground level rather than staging a composed scenic survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pale sky, low desert hills, distant mountains, scrubby ground, a vertical utility pole, soft horizon lines, and dark film gate edges.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, muted color, dust marks, scratches, uneven exposure, and visible frame boundaries.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, transition, landscape cutaway, or memory beat for travel through rural Utah desert terrain.
Historical context: The footage visually documents open arid landscape and small-scale travel observation in Utah without supporting claims about a specific road, park, or named landmark.
Research note: People are flagged in the clip metadata, so likeness review may be needed even though the contact sheet mainly shows landscape; copyright and location rights should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1939 Utah 8mm desert footage, home movie of American West hills, arid landscape mountains, or grainy prewar travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1939 Utah or nearby desert travel footage, and then with broader American West landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Utah 8mm frame showing a muted desert plain, low hills, distant mountains, pale cloudy sky, and a vertical utility pole near the left edge. — Desert hills and distant mountains seen through grainy 8mm film, with a pole at the left edge.

1939 Utah home-movie frame showing open arid ground, low hills, distant mountains on the horizon, and dark 8mm frame edges. — Open Utah desert landscape with hills and distant mountains under a pale sky.

1939 Utah 8mm frame with two rounded desert hills, a flat sandy plain, pale sky, and visible dust and scratches from the film scan. — Rounded desert hills on a flat arid plain, recorded with soft home-movie focus.

1939 Utah 8mm frame showing rounded desert hills across flat arid terrain, with muted color, pale sky, scratches, and dark frame edge. — Low rounded hills across a flat desert plain near the end of the short pan.

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