Las Vegas-1958: View Of Mountains And Brown Hills On A Clear Day

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationLas Vegas, Nevada, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Las Vegas

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View Of Mountains And Brown Hills On A Clear Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping desert landscape from Las Vegas. The footage features snow-capped mountains in the distance under a clear sky, with a foreground of dry brush and scattered Joshua trees. The color palette is dominated by deep purples and browns, characteristic of aged film stock, with visible grain and slight motion blur. The camera pans across the arid terrain, offering a nostalgic glimpse of the Nevada desert in the late 1950s.

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: 127495272

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 1831 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1958-1959
Reel-level location note: las vegas,flagstaff
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: Las Vegas, Nevada, 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Las Vegas or Nevada desert coverage needing an 8mm home-movie landscape insert without people or recognizable commercial signage.
Period detail: The footage may show a mid-century visitor view of open desert outside Las Vegas, with Joshua trees, dry brush, brown hills, and distant snow-capped mountains visible.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged traveler perspective, with a handheld pan across scenery rather than a composed scenic postcard view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include snow-capped mountains, brown desert hills, Joshua trees, dry scrub, rocky ground, pale sky, and dark 8mm frame edges.
Film character: Aged color 8mm texture is evident in purple-blue color shift, soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, and slight motion blur from the handheld pan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a desert establishing insert, a geographic transition, or a memory beat in a sequence about mid-century travel around Las Vegas.
Historical context: The scene documents open arid terrain near Las Vegas as seen through personal film, emphasizing landscape and road-trip observation rather than urban development.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in these frames, but copyright status and location identification should still be checked before use.
Research search match: Researcher searches that fit include 1958 Las Vegas desert 8mm, Nevada Joshua trees home movie, snow-capped mountains near Las Vegas, and vintage desert landscape footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1958 Las Vegas or Nevada clips, and then with broader mid-century desert travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Las Vegas-area 8mm frame showing snowy mountains behind dry desert brush and dark Joshua tree silhouettes. — Snow-capped mountains rise beyond dry desert vegetation.

8mm view of a Joshua tree and dry scrub against a brown, rocky hillside near Las Vegas in 1958. — A Joshua tree stands before a rocky desert slope.

Soft, handheld 8mm frame of desert brush and a brown hillside during a pan across the Las Vegas-area landscape. — The handheld pan blurs desert brush and hillside.

1958 home-movie frame showing Joshua trees and dry brush across an open desert valley near Las Vegas, with low hills beyond. — Joshua trees and scrub spread across an open desert valley.

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