Las Vegas-1958: Traveling Past A Deserted, Windswept Hill

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

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Traveling Past A Deserted, Windswept Hill — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a desolate desert landscape in Las Vegas. The camera pans across a windswept, sandy hill with undulating ridges and sparse scrub vegetation under a clear blue sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of a remote, undeveloped area on the edge of the city, perfect for historical documentaries, retro-themed projects, or evocative background footage.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K Digitally Restored
License: Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127495310

Rights & Clearance

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 (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports requests for 1950s Las Vegas-area home-movie landscape footage for documentary inserts, regional history sequences, or archival atmosphere without people or buildings.
Period detail: The frames may show an undeveloped desert hillside near Las Vegas in 1958, with no visible landmarks, vehicles, signs, or built structures to narrow the setting further.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot roadside perspective, observing a barren hill in passing rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include sandy ridges, dark scrub patches, exposed rocky texture, a clear blue sky, soft shadows, and the black borders of the 8mm frame scan.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, handheld travel blur, and uneven exposure that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, travel transition, desert establishing insert, or quiet memory beat between more specific Las Vegas material.
Historical context: The footage suggests open desert terrain associated with the Las Vegas area before visible urban development enters the frame, but it does not identify a specific district or landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or private structures are visible, though users should still review copyright, location context, and any production-specific property concerns.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Las Vegas desert hill, 8mm Nevada landscape, vintage home movie desert, windswept sandy ridge, and undeveloped Las Vegas outskirts.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Las Vegas footage, then broader 1950s Nevada desert and roadside travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Las Vegas-area 8mm frame showing a barren sandy hillside with ridges, scrub, and soft home-movie blur. — A windswept sandy slope fills the frame, with sparse dark scrub and visible film-frame borders.

1958 Las Vegas-area desert hillside beneath a clear blue sky, filmed from a moving 8mm home-movie camera. — The camera passes a low sandy ridge with scattered scrub beneath a clear blue sky.

A pale sandy hill near Las Vegas in 1958, with scattered dark vegetation and blue sky along the upper edge. — A pale desert ridge crosses the frame, marked by scrub patches and rounded wind-shaped contours.

Final 1958 Las Vegas-area frame with a low sandy ridge, sparse scrub, and broad blue sky from a moving home-movie shot. — The hill drops low in the frame, leaving open sky above the sandy ridge and sparse scrub.

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