York Nebraska-1958: Rural Landscape with Houses and Dirt Road

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationYork, Nebraska, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Nebraska

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Rural Landscape with Houses and Dirt Road — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a quiet rural landscape in York, Nebraska. The camera moves steadily along a dirt road, revealing a field and several modest houses in the distance. Bare trees line the horizon under a pale, overcast sky, suggesting late autumn or early spring. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, film grain, and a slightly faded blue color cast. The scene evokes a sense of quiet Americana and historical nostalgia, offering authentic archival footage of mid-century rural life.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127271794

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 1256 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: #8
Reel-level year note: 1957-1958
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1958 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: York, Nebraska, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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: Useful for 1950s rural Nebraska establishing shots, mid-century road travel inserts, and documentary sequences needing quiet farm-edge housing and open landscape.
Period detail: The modest distant houses, bare trees, unpaved roadside, and open field may show a late-1950s rural residential edge consistent with the York, Nebraska metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera appears to pass by from a vehicle or roadside vantage, giving an unstaged home-movie glimpse of ordinary houses and fields rather than a composed scenic view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dirt or gravel road, open field, bare tree line, small white house, larger pale house, utility pole, low outbuildings, and overcast sky.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, slight jitter, and a faded blue cast that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural transition, exterior cutaway, road-travel insert, or quiet memory beat between more specific Nebraska home-movie scenes.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for mid-century rural settlement patterns, with scattered homes set behind open ground and winter-bare trees along the horizon.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location verification, and any property-use concerns should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 York Nebraska 8mm rural road footage, 1950s farm landscape home movie, and mid-century small-town Nebraska houses.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with York, Nebraska 1958 exteriors, then with broader 1950s rural road and farmhouse landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 York, Nebraska 8mm frame showing a rural roadside field with distant houses, bare trees, and a pale overcast sky. — A rural field and roadside lead toward small houses and leafless trees in the distance.

York, Nebraska home-movie frame from 1958 with a small distant house, open field, bare trees, and soft 8mm color. — The moving view passes a small house and bare tree line beyond the roadside field.

1958 York, Nebraska rural view with two distant houses, a low outbuilding, bare trees, and a pale road edge. — Two houses and a low structure sit beyond the field as the roadside continues in the foreground.

Late-1950s York, Nebraska frame showing a pale house, utility pole, bare trees, open field, and dirt road. — A larger pale house and utility pole come into view beside the rural road and open ground.

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