Wyoming-1939: Desolate Landscape with Distant Utility Pole

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

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Desolate Landscape with Distant Utility Pole — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a vast, desolate landscape in Wyoming. The grainy black-and-white footage, framed by a dark border, shows a flat, open field under an overcast sky. A lone utility pole stands in the distance, emphasizing the emptiness of the rural terrain. The camera remains steady, offering a quiet, contemplative view of the American West during the late 1930s. This archival clip evokes a sense of isolation and nostalgia, ideal for historical documentaries, editorial content, or vintage-themed 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: 127608396

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: Supports 1930s American West documentary edits needing a sparse rural road-landscape view from Wyoming home-movie footage.
Period detail: The visible utility poles, open graded land, and black-and-white 8mm framing may show a late-1930s rural roadside or rail-adjacent landscape.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a steady traveler perspective, preserving an unstaged glance at open country rather than a composed scenic view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include overcast sky, distant low hills or fields, utility poles, roadside or track lines, sparse vegetation, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip carries soft 8mm monochrome texture with grain, slight haze, gate edges, and exposure variation that situate it as physical home-movie film.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a quiet insert, transition, travel cutaway, or memory beat establishing distance and rural isolation.
Historical context: The view gives visual context for open rural Wyoming landscapes in the late 1930s without identifying a specific town, road, or landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but copyright and any location or property questions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 Wyoming 8mm road landscape, rural American West home movie, utility pole field footage, and Depression-era travel view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then other 1939 Wyoming travel views, then broader rural road and open-landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Wyoming home-movie frame showing a flat rural landscape, overcast sky, sparse ground, and a distant utility pole. — A sparse rural landscape under cloud cover, framed by dark 8mm gate edges.

1939 Wyoming view of an open field or roadside with a low horizon, cloudy sky, and one visible utility pole. — A lone pole stands against a low, open horizon in the rural landscape.

1939 Wyoming home-movie frame with a foreground utility pole, faint road or track lines, and open land under clouds. — A closer utility pole punctuates the otherwise empty roadside view.

1939 Wyoming landscape frame showing a cloudy sky over open rural ground, with soft exposure and dark 8mm borders. — The clip ends on a hazy, empty stretch of open country beneath heavy cloud.

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