Utah USA-1939: Travelers Standing In Front Of Their Car Soaking Up Nature's

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

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Travelers Standing In Front Of Their Car Soaking Up Nature's — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a desolate desert landscape in Utah, with rolling sand dunes under a pale sky. The scene transitions to a classic 1930s car parked on a dirt road, where two women in period dresses and a man stand beside it, pausing during a road trip. The footage shows natural film grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic frame edges of an old Super 8 home movie, evoking a sense of mid-century Americana and nostalgia.

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: 124763565

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.

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 (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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s Utah home-movie footage suited to documentary requests for Depression-era road travel, desert scenery, and travelers pausing beside an automobile.
Period detail: The clothing, 1930s-style rounded sedan, 8mm color look, and rural dirt-road setting may show late-1930s leisure travel in the American West.
Home-movie behavior: The people appear casually posed or waiting beside the parked car, giving the clip an unstaged roadside pause from a personal travel film.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pale desert hills, open sky, a dirt road, a rounded 1930s car, two women in dresses, a man standing nearby, and dark frame edges.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, dust specks, slight fading, and contact-frame edges that preserve the feel of original home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, travel transition, roadside cutaway, or memory beat between broader Western landscape scenes.
Historical context: The footage visually places private automobile travel in a sparse Utah landscape, showing travelers stopping to look around rather than a formal public event.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright status should be assessed separately from depicted-person rights.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1930s Utah desert home movie, 8mm road trip travelers, vintage car in Western landscape, and Depression-era family travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1939 Utah travel footage, then broader themes of desert roads, roadside stops, and vintage automobile touring.

Still Frames From This Clip

Utah desert hills under a pale sky in 1939 8mm home-movie footage, with visible dust and frame edges. — A wide view of low desert hills and open sky begins the travel sequence.

Two women in period dresses stand by a 1930s-style car on a Utah dirt road, with low hills in the distance. — Travelers pause beside a parked car on a sparse roadside.

A rounded 1930s-style car sits on a rural Utah road as two women stand beside it and a man appears at the edge of frame. — The roadside stop continues with the car centered against the open landscape.

Travelers stand around a 1930s-style car in Utah, filmed from a distance with soft color and visible 8mm grain. — Three travelers gather around the parked car during a desert-road pause.

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