Wyoming-1939: Mist-Covered Mountains on Cloudy Day

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationWyoming, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Wyoming

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Mist-Covered Mountains on Cloudy Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a misty, overcast day in Wyoming. The camera moves steadily, offering a passing view of layered mountain ranges shrouded in fog. The grainy black-and-white footage, framed by the dark edges of a film projector, evokes a sense of quiet isolation and timeless natural beauty. This archival clip is ideal for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or evoking mid-20th century Americana.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127608379

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1939 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Wyoming, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s Wyoming home-movie mountain scenery for documentary inserts, travel-history sequences, weather atmosphere, or regional landscape context.
Period detail: The frames show black-and-white 8mm mountain views with projector-edge framing, consistent with the supplied 1939 home-movie metadata but without visible date markers.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot passing perspective, observing distant ridges and open terrain from a moving vantage point rather than a staged scenic setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include misty mountain ridges, pale cloudy sky, open rolling land, distant valley floor, dark film-gate edges, soft horizon lines, and light film grain.
Film character: The footage has a soft black-and-white 8mm texture with visible grain, slight haze, gate-edge shadows, and exposure shifts that support its physical-film archive character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, travel transition, regional establishing insert, or memory beat between human activity and wider landscape context.
Historical context: The views place the home-movie record in a rural mountain setting, showing weather and terrain as experienced by a traveler rather than documenting a named landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in these frames, but users should still verify copyright status and any collection-specific licensing terms.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1930s Wyoming 8mm mountains, vintage home movie misty landscape, black and white mountain pass view, and cloudy western scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1939 Wyoming travel footage, and then with other misty mountain or overcast western landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Wyoming home-movie frame showing layered mist-covered mountains beneath an overcast sky with visible 8mm gate edges. — Layered ridges recede into mist beneath a cloudy sky.

Hazy Wyoming mountain range appears beyond soft foreground terrain in a black-and-white 8mm home-movie frame. — A distant range sits in haze beyond low rolling ground.

Black-and-white 8mm view of open Wyoming terrain with low hills and a hazy valley under cloud cover. — Open terrain stretches toward low hills softened by haze.

Passing 1939 Wyoming landscape frame with rolling hillside, distant mist, and dark 8mm film-frame edges. — A rolling hillside passes in front of a misty distant landscape.

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