Nevada-1969: Electrical Poles Stretching Across Open Field

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationNevada, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Nevada

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Electrical Poles Stretching Across Open Field — Clip Details

NEVADA-1969: A grainy 8mm home movie clip captures a field under a deep blue sky, dominated by a dense pattern of electrical poles and cables stretching across the landscape. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics, including prominent purple and blue color cast, heavy grain, and subtle scratches, suggesting a vintage recording of a rural or industrial utility corridor. The static shot emphasizes the repetitive lines of the power infrastructure against the open sky, evoking a sense of mid-century Americana and technological expansion.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127413498

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: 1969 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: Nevada, 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 1960s Nevada archive requests needing a brief utility corridor, open land, or infrastructure cutaway from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1960s rural or industrial power infrastructure, with poles or tower forms silhouetted against an open blue sky.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in an unstaged home-movie observation of infrastructure and open landscape rather than a planned commercial view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue sky, dark vertical pole shapes, faint electrical structures, open field edges, film grain, scratches, and color fading.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries dense grain, purple-blue color shift, soft exposure, and gate-edge darkness that read as physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or atmospheric cutaway for themes of utilities, rural infrastructure, or memory of place.
Historical context: The view places electrical infrastructure within open Nevada landscape, suggesting everyday mid-century development without identifying a specific site.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location, and property-right questions should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1969 Nevada 8mm power lines, rural electrical poles, utility corridor home movie, or vintage infrastructure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Nevada material, then other 1969 Nevada landscape shots, then broader 1960s utility and power-line footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Nevada 8mm frame with blue-purple sky, dark pole silhouettes, and heavy film grain. — Dark pole forms interrupt a blue-purple sky in the opening frame.

1969 Nevada home-movie frame showing a dark post against blue sky with faint utility shapes at the right edge. — A central dark post and faint utility structures stand against the blue sky.

1969 Nevada 8mm frame with dark pole-like silhouettes, blue-purple exposure, and visible surface wear. — Dark vertical forms dominate the lower-left portion of the grainy frame.

Final 1969 Nevada frame with blue-purple landscape, faint utility structure, and dark ground shape at the edge. — A faint utility structure and dark ground edge appear in the closing frame.

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