Las Vegas-1958: A Bird Flies In The Desert Among Rocks Trees And Other Desert

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

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A Bird Flies In The Desert Among Rocks Trees And Other... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched desert landscape near Las Vegas. The footage features iconic Joshua trees, rocky terrain, and sparse chaparral under a bright blue sky. A bird briefly flies across the frame, adding motion to the arid scenery. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic frame borders of a Super 8 home movie, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American West atmosphere.

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: 127495303

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 American West or Las Vegas-area desert cutaways needing non-urban home-movie landscape footage.
Period detail: The visible 8mm frame edges, faded color, and Joshua tree desert scenery support a mid-century home-movie view, with 1958 supplied by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged traveler viewpoint, lingering on desert plants, rocky slopes, open sky, and a brief bird movement rather than posed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include Joshua trees, dry scrub, pale rocky hillsides, blue sky, film borders, and a small bird crossing open desert space.
Film character: The footage shows soft focus, handheld framing, natural grain, slight color fading, and dark frame edges typical of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, landscape transition, travel-memory beat, or nature cutaway within a 1950s Nevada sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents a visitor-level view of desert terrain near Las Vegas before the modern skyline enters the frame, without visible people or signage.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and any location-based permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Researcher matches include 1958 Las Vegas desert 8mm footage, Joshua tree home movie, Nevada rocky landscape, and mid-century American West cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Las Vegas footage, then broader desert plants, rocks, birds, and American West landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Las Vegas-area desert view with a Joshua tree, brush, distant horizon, and visible 8mm frame edge. — A Joshua tree stands above scrub in a sunlit desert landscape.

Las Vegas-area desert sky and partial rocky slope in faded 1958 8mm home-movie footage. — Open sky fills most of the frame above a low rocky desert hillside.

Faded 1958 Las Vegas-area desert frame showing a rocky slope beneath broad blue sky. — A rocky desert slope cuts across the lower frame under clear sky.

1958 Las Vegas-area desert hillside with pale rock, sparse scrub, and 8mm frame borders. — Pale desert rock formations and sparse plants fill the final frame.

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