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West Virginia-1964: Journey Through Mountain Tunnel

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  • Year1964
  • Decade1960s
  • LocationWest Virginia, United States
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1964 · West Virginia, United States
  • StatusDirect License

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Journey Through Mountain Tunnel — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a journey through a mountainous region in West Virginia. The footage begins with a view of a dark tunnel entrance carved into a rocky hillside, with a bright light at the far end. The camera moves forward, passing through the tunnel into a hazy, overexposed landscape of rolling purple-tinged mountains under a pale sky. The grainy, high-contrast image and soft focus evoke a strong sense of nostalgia and mid-century Americana. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects exploring 1960s travel and rural landscapes.

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
125500826

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
1964 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
West Virginia, 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

  • mountains
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  • 1964
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  • classic American landscape
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  • vintage film grain
  • 1960s Americana
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  • vintage travel
  • mountain scenery
  • 1960s family vacation
  • documentary footage

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Supports 1960s documentary or editorial requests needing West Virginia mountain travel, tunnel-road passage, or rural Appalachian landscape atmosphere from real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail
The footage may show mid-1960s road travel through a mountain tunnel and hazy ridges, with no visible vehicles, signage, clothing, or dated landmarks in these frames.
Home-movie behavior
The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective from a moving road viewpoint, shifting from tunnel approach to quick scenic mountain views without staged action.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a dark rock tunnel, roadway edge, bright tunnel opening, pale sky, layered purple-blue mountains, hazy valley floor, and film-frame borders.
Film character
The 8mm scan has visible grain, soft focus, high contrast at the tunnel, overexposed sky, purple color shift, and handheld instability typical of small-gauge home movies.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a short travel insert, transition from enclosed road to open landscape, or memory beat for mid-century mountain driving.
Historical context
The view reflects leisure or family road travel through mountainous West Virginia, while the frames do not identify a specific route, community, or landmark.
Research note
No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any route or property implications should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match
Likely matches searches for 1964 West Virginia 8mm mountain tunnel footage, hazy Appalachian landscape home movie, vintage road travel, and purple-tinted hill views.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1964 West Virginia travel footage, then broader 1960s mountain roads, tunnels, and Appalachian landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 West Virginia 8mm frame showing a road approaching a dark tunnel cut through rock, with bright daylight visible at the far end.

Road-level view into a dark mountain tunnel with light at the exit.

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1964 West Virginia 8mm frame with soft, overexposed haze over layered mountain ridges and a faint valley below.

Hazy mountain ridges appear beyond the tunnel sequence.

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1964 West Virginia 8mm frame showing a broad hazy valley and layered purple-blue mountain slopes beneath a washed-out sky.

Distant valley and mountain layers in a purple-tinted home-movie view.

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1964 West Virginia 8mm frame of hazy layered mountains, a dark foreground ridge, and faint valley detail softened by exposure and grain.

Layered mountain landscape fading into haze at the end of the clip.

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