Wyoming-1939: Empty Plain Stretching to Distant Mountains

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

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Empty Plain Stretching to Distant Mountains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a desolate, sun-bleached landscape in Wyoming. The grainy black-and-white footage shows a vast, empty plain stretching toward distant, hazy mountains under a pale sky. The camera remains mostly static, offering a quiet, contemplative view through a dark frame, emphasizing the isolation and stillness of the terrain. This archival footage evokes a sense of historical solitude and untouched nature, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127608383

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

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: 1930s Wyoming home-movie landscape footage for productions needing a quiet rural establishing view, terrain cutaway, or archival sense of open western space.
Period detail: The frames may show period 8mm travel footage, with no visible vehicles, buildings, signs, clothing, or other date-specific details beyond the 1939 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged value of a traveler pausing to record empty terrain from a fixed viewpoint rather than filming an arranged subject.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pale sky, hazy distant mountains, rolling dry ground, low ridges, soft horizon lines, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The black-and-white 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure wash, vertical marks, and heavy gate borders that give it a clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, reflective transition, geographic cutaway, or quiet memory beat between more populated scenes.
Historical context: The view places emphasis on open land and distance, offering a visual record of undeveloped-looking terrain without supporting claims about settlement or land use.
Research note: No people, logos, music, or obvious private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any location-specific property concerns.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 Wyoming landscape, 8mm western mountains, empty plains home movie, vintage dry terrain, and black-and-white rural cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then with other 1939 Wyoming material, then with empty western landscapes or mountain-and-plain transition shots.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame showing an empty dry plain leading toward soft distant mountains under a pale sky. — A still view of open Wyoming terrain with hazy mountains beyond.

1939 Wyoming home-movie frame with a barren foreground, layered low ridges, and a muted mountain slope in the distance. — Distant mountain slopes rise beyond a dry, empty foreground.

Black-and-white 1939 Wyoming frame showing open dry ground and a broad distant hillside through a soft 8mm image. — Open terrain stretches toward a broad, hazy hillside.

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame with layered dry ridges in the foreground and a hazy mountain mass behind them. — Layered dry ridges sit beneath a hazy mountain backdrop.

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