Cheyenne Wyoming-1961: Mid-Century Motel With Mountain View

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

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Mid-Century Motel With Mountain View — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched view of a mid-century motel or resort building framed by palm trees and green lawn. A prominent rocky mountain rises in the background under a bright blue sky, with a yellow flag visible on the structure. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics—slight focus shifts, natural film grain, and warm color tones—creating a nostalgic snapshot of a 1960s American landscape. The perspective suggests a view from a window or shaded area, with dark framing on the sides.

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: 125291573

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

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: Useful for requests needing 1960s home-movie exterior views of roadside lodging, landscaped grounds, and a mountain backdrop for documentary or period cutaway use.
Period detail: The low mid-century building, lawn, palms, small flag, and 8mm color stock may show an early-1960s motel or resort setting in the stated Cheyenne, Wyoming reel context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a casual visitor-shot perspective, framed from shade or a window toward the motel grounds rather than staged as a formal travel view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a rocky mountain silhouette, palm trunks, green lawn, low building, shaded foreground edges, trees, bright sky, and a small yellow flag.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm texture through soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure bloom in the sky, and a gently drifting handheld frame.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short exterior insert, travel transition, location-establishing cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a 1960s road-trip sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects leisure-travel surroundings with landscaped grounds and motel-style architecture, while the exact business, ownership, and site identity are not confirmed by the frames.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location claims, and any property-release needs should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1961 8mm motel exterior, mid-century lodging with mountain view, vintage home movie resort grounds, and Cheyenne Wyoming travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with 1961 Cheyenne or Wyoming travel clips, then with broader mid-century motel and road-trip exteriors.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 home-movie frame from the stated Cheyenne, Wyoming clip showing a low motel building, green lawn, palms, and a mountain backdrop. — Motel grounds and palm trees sit below a rocky mountain in a soft 8mm travel view.

1961 8mm frame showing landscaped motel grounds with a palm trunk in front and a rocky mountain rising behind the roofline. — A palm trunk crosses the view of the motel lawn with the mountain beyond.

Soft 1961 home-movie view of a low motel or resort building, clipped by dark frame edges, with lawn and mountain in the background. — The camera holds on the shaded view of the motel grounds and distant rock formation.

End frame from the 1961 Cheyenne-labeled clip showing motel landscaping, palm trunks, a yellow flag, and a rocky mountain backdrop. — A yellow flag and palm trunks mark the motel exterior against the mountain view.

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