Las Vegas-1958: View Of Melting Mountain Snow On A Clear Sunny Day

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationLas Vegas, Nevada, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Las Vegas

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View Of Melting Mountain Snow On A Clear Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a rugged mountain landscape with patches of melting snow under a clear, sunny sky. The footage shows rocky terrain and snow-covered slopes, with a distinct purple-blue color cast typical of aged film. The camera pans across the terrain, revealing the natural textures of snow and rock, evoking a sense of quiet wilderness. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of a mountain environment, likely near Las Vegas, with authentic film grain and subtle motion blur characteristic of Super 8 footage.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127495356

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s 8mm home-movie mountain cutaway for documentary, museum, education, or editorial projects needing brief natural landscape footage near Las Vegas.
Period detail: The frames show aged 8mm color footage with rocky slopes and remaining snow; the 1958 date and Las Vegas area come from clip metadata rather than visible landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The short handheld pan reads as visitor-shot observation, lingering on snow, rock, and distant terrain without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include melting snow patches, rounded rocks, scrubby mountain terrain, distant ridges, bright sunlit highlights, and dark contact-sheet frame borders.
Film character: The footage has visible film grain, soft focus, motion blur, and a strong purple-blue color shift consistent with aged small-gauge home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief scenic insert, winter-to-spring transition, travel-memory beat, or landscape cutaway within a 1950s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The clip may show mid-century recreational travel into mountain terrain around southern Nevada, but the frames do not identify a specific site or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in these frames, though copyright status and location identification should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1958 8mm mountain snow, Las Vegas area home movie landscape, vintage melting snow footage, and 1950s rocky slope cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with confirmed 1958 Las Vegas-area travel footage, and then with broader vintage snow, mountain, and desert-edge landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 8mm frame of a rocky mountain slope near Las Vegas, with scattered melting snow and a purple-blue aged-film cast. — Snow patches sit among rocks on a sunlit mountain slope.

Aged 8mm view of rocks and lingering snow on rugged terrain, with the Las Vegas-area location supported by clip metadata. — Large rocks and remaining snow appear across the mountain ground.

Purple-blue 8mm frame showing distant ridges and rough mountain terrain, with snow visible near the bottom edge. — Distant ridges and a strip of snow fill the lower frame.

1958 home-movie frame of mountain ridges near Las Vegas, with a low snow patch and visible grain in a blue-shifted scan. — A low snow patch crosses the foreground below distant terrain.

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