Wyoming-1939: Bush Fire Smoke Rising Over Rural Landscape

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

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Bush Fire Smoke Rising Over Rural Landscape — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a smoky, atmospheric scene in Wyoming. The footage shows a distant landscape with a structure partially obscured by thick smoke rising from a bush fire. The grainy, monochrome image features visible film scratches and light leaks, characteristic of early home movie footage. The camera remains mostly static, focusing on the hazy horizon where fire and smoke dominate the frame. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse of rural life and environmental conditions from the late 1930s, evoking a sense of historical urgency and natural drama.

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: 127608422

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: This 1939 Wyoming 8mm clip supports documentary or museum requests for rural fire smoke, environmental atmosphere, or late-1930s home-movie landscape material.
Period detail: The monochrome 8mm look and metadata-supported 1939 Wyoming setting place the view in a late-1930s rural home-movie context, though no landmark is identifiable.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds from a sheltered or window-framed vantage point, preserving an unstaged observer's view of smoke and landscape rather than a directed scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark vertical frame bars, diagonal shadows, pale sky, hazy ground, smoke, film specks, scratches, and a faint distant roofline or structure.
Film character: The footage carries dense 8mm grain, soft focus, fluctuating exposure, frame-edge darkness, and visible splice or scan bands that contribute to its physical archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, atmospheric transition, environmental insert, or memory beat around rural fire, smoke, drought, or hazardous weather themes.
Historical context: The scene shows smoke across an open rural landscape, offering visual context for land, weather, and fire conditions without identifying a specific incident.
Research note: No people, logos, or clear private property are visible, but copyright status and any location or property implications should be checked before final use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1939 Wyoming 8mm smoke, rural bush fire home movie, vintage fire smoke landscape, and late 1930s environmental footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 Wyoming footage, then rural fire, smoke, weather, and landscape archive themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame with dark vertical bars, diagonal shadows, pale sky, and soft smoke haze. — Dark foreground bars and diagonal shadows obscure a hazy smoke-filled view.

A static 1939 Wyoming 8mm view shows a dark frame bar and diagonal shadow crossing a bright smoke-hazed sky. — A dark foreground divider and diagonal shadow cut across the pale smoky scene.

Smoke and exposure haze fill the lower 1939 Wyoming 8mm frame, bordered by dark vertical edges and visible film wear. — The frame becomes mostly pale haze, with dark edges and small film marks visible.

A 1939 Wyoming 8mm frame shows smoke drifting over a low rural horizon, with a faint roofline or structure in the distance. — Smoke hangs over a low rural horizon, partly veiling a faint distant structure.

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