Las Vegas-1958: Barren Rocky Mountains Under Blue-Tinted Sky

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

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Barren Rocky Mountains Under Blue-Tinted Sky — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a panning view of rugged, rocky mountains under a distinct bluish tint. The footage reveals layered mountain ridges with textured rock faces, devoid of trees, suggesting a high-altitude or arid environment. The grainy, slightly blurred quality and color cast are characteristic of Super 8 film from the era. The camera moves horizontally across the landscape, offering a nostalgic glimpse of a natural vista, likely near Las Vegas. This archival clip evokes mid-century vintage and is ideal for historical documentaries, retro-themed projects, or nostalgic content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127495403

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: Supports 1950s archival requests for arid western mountain scenery near Las Vegas, useful in documentary, museum, educational, or period travel sequences.
Period detail: The visible clues are mainly the 8mm home-movie color, grain, and handheld panning view, which may show mid-century visitor footage rather than a named landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a traveler pausing to pan across distant rocky ridges from an overlook or roadside vantage point.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include barren rock slopes, layered mountain ridges, pale exposed faces, dark foreground scrub or rock, bluish color cast, and contact-print frame edges.
Film character: The footage carries dense 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, gate edges, and a strong blue-purple cast that read as physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief landscape insert, travel-memory cutaway, regional transition, or atmospheric beat between Las Vegas-area home-movie scenes.
Historical context: The view suggests a dry, rugged landscape outside the urban frame, offering visual context for mid-century travel footage without identifying a specific mountain range.
Research note: No people, brands, or private property are visible, but copyright status and any location-specific access or property considerations should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Relevant searches might include 1958 8mm Las Vegas mountains, vintage home movie desert ridges, bluish tint rocky landscape, and 1950s Nevada travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Las Vegas or Nevada footage from 1958, then broader 1950s desert, mountain, or road-trip landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Las Vegas-area 8mm frame showing rugged, treeless rocky mountains under a strong blue-purple cast. — A bluish-tinted view of barren rocky ridges and pale exposed slopes.

1958 Las Vegas-area home-movie frame with layered rocky ridges and dark arid foreground terrain. — Layered desert mountain ridges appear through soft focus and a blue-purple color cast.

1958 Las Vegas-area 8mm frame showing rugged barren mountain faces during a handheld pan. — Rough rocky slopes fill the frame as the handheld pan moves across the mountain view.

1958 Las Vegas-area 8mm frame showing a broad treeless ridge and pale diagonal rock face in bluish tint. — A pale diagonal rock face cuts across a broad barren ridge in the final panning view.

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