Cheyenne Wyoming-1961: Desert Resort With Mountain Backdrop

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationCheyenne, Wyoming, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1960 Cheyenne Wyoming

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Desert Resort With Mountain Backdrop — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched view of a low-slung building with a green facade, framed by palm trees and a grassy lawn. In the background, a prominent rocky mountain rises against a clear blue sky, suggesting a desert resort or motel. The footage is viewed through a dark frame, likely from a window or doorway, with a palm tree trunk partially obscuring the left side. The image has the characteristic color saturation and grain of mid-century home movies, evoking a nostalgic, retro atmosphere of a 1960s American vacation.

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: 125291571

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: 1961 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: Cheyenne, Wyoming, 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: Useful for 1960s travel, roadside lodging, or vacation atmosphere edits needing a brief exterior view of a low resort-like building against a mountain backdrop.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century resort or motel architecture, a manicured lawn, palm plantings, and saturated 8mm color consistent with early 1960s home-movie footage.
Home-movie behavior: The view feels visitor-shot and observational, framed from shade or an opening rather than staged for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a green low-slung building, lawn, palm trunks, shrubs, a yellow flag, dark foreground framing, and a rocky mountain in the distance.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, strong daylight exposure, saturated color, gate edges, and mild handheld instability that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short travel cutaway, establishing insert, memory beat, or transition into a 1960s vacation or roadside-stay sequence.
Historical context: The footage places leisure architecture and landscaped grounds against a dry mountain setting, suggesting mid-century American travel culture without identifying the site.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable signs are visible, but copyright, location identity, and any property-release questions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Searches such as 1961 8mm resort exterior, vintage motel mountain backdrop, 1960s vacation home movie, or Cheyenne Wyoming travel footage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Cheyenne or 1961 travel scenes, then broader 1960s motel, resort, lawn, and mountain-view material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Cataloged 1961 Cheyenne, Wyoming 8mm frame showing a resort-like exterior, lawn, palm trees, shrubs, and rocky mountain backdrop. — A shaded view frames a low green building and lawn with a rocky mountain beyond.

Cataloged 1961 Cheyenne, Wyoming frame with palm-lined lawn, low green building, yellow flag, and mountain backdrop. — The camera holds on the landscaped grounds and low building beneath the mountain skyline.

Cataloged 1961 Cheyenne, Wyoming 8mm frame with a palm trunk foregrounding a resort-like building and mountain view. — A palm trunk partially obscures the building while the mountain remains visible behind it.

Cataloged 1961 Cheyenne, Wyoming frame showing a shaded home-movie view of landscaped grounds and a mountain-backed building. — The final frame keeps the shaded foreground and mountain-backed grounds in view.

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