Wyoming-1939: Smoke Rising from Open Field

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

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Smoke Rising from Open Field — Clip Details

WYOMING-1939: Black and white 8mm home movie footage captures a dramatic scene of smoke rising from an open field. The grainy, high-contrast image shows a dark, shadowed foreground with a bright, hazy sky. A small, dark object briefly appears in the upper frame, possibly a bird or debris, before a distant, smoky horizon line becomes visible. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics, including grain, light leaks, and a soft focus, evoking a sense of historical documentation and rural Americana.

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: 127608405

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 8mm footage for productions needing a rural smoke, fire aftermath, or atmospheric landscape insert from a home-movie source.
Period detail: The frames may show a 1939 rural Wyoming open field or horizon, with no visible buildings, vehicles, people, signage, or landmarks to further identify the scene.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged observer's view, held at a distance as smoke or haze drifts across an open landscape rather than presenting a composed newsreel scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark foreground band, vertical frame shadows, bright hazy sky, distant low horizon, smoky field surface, soft focus, film grain, and uneven exposure.
Film character: The footage carries a physical 8mm look with high contrast, heavy grain, soft focus, exposure pulsing, and dark gate or window-like edges across the frame.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, transition, memory beat, or atmospheric insert suggesting rural fire, smoke, haze, or unsettled weather.
Historical context: As home-movie footage, it documents how a rural smoke event or hazy field scene appeared to an amateur camera operator without adding verified cause or event context.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and avoid treating the smoke source or location as independently verified.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 Wyoming 8mm smoke field, black and white rural fire haze, Depression-era home movie landscape, and vintage open field smoke footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Wyoming or 1939 rural footage, then with broader themes of smoke, fire aftermath, weather, and open country.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame showing a smoky rural horizon through dark foreground edges and a bright, washed sky. — Smoke or haze rises beyond a dark foreground edge in an open rural view.

High-contrast 8mm frame from Wyoming, 1939, with dark bands crossing a hazy field and pale sky. — Dark exposure bands cut across a pale sky and smoky open field.

1939 Wyoming home-movie frame with a low field horizon, smoke or haze, and dark gate-like edges. — A low rural horizon and smoky field surface appear between dark frame edges.

Black-and-white 8mm frame of a smoky Wyoming field horizon in 1939, softened by grain and exposure haze. — Smoke or haze spreads across the distant edge of an open field.

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