Wyoming-1939: Waterfall Cascading from Mountain Cliff

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationWyoming, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 Wyoming

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Waterfall Cascading from Mountain Cliff — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic waterfall cascading down a rugged mountain cliff in Wyoming. The water flows powerfully over the rock face, creating a misty spray at the base, with lush green trees clinging to the steep canyon walls. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color shifts, with a striking blue-purple tint on the falling water, likely due to film stock or lighting. The camera remains steady, focusing on the natural beauty of the remote landscape, evoking a sense of quiet wilderness and historical Americana.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127608533

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: Useful for 1930s Wyoming nature or travel edits needing brief archival home-movie footage of a mountain waterfall without people or modern intrusions.
Period detail: The footage may show 1930s visitor-shot scenery, with no visible cars, signage, clothing, or built structures to date the scene beyond the supplied 1939 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a tourist or family-travel viewpoint, holding on the waterfall as a scenic memory rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tall waterfall, sheer canyon rock, dark shadowed cliff faces, evergreen trees, white spray, and color-shifted falling water.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and blue-purple color shift that read as physical-film texture from an early home-movie scan.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short scenic insert, wilderness transition, travel-memory beat, or period cutaway in a sequence about Wyoming landscapes.
Historical context: The scene presents mountain scenery as preserved in a prewar American home movie, emphasizing landscape observation rather than identifiable social activity.
Research note: No people, logos, music, or private property are visible, but copyright status and any location-specific permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1939 8mm Wyoming waterfall footage, vintage mountain river scenery, 1930s home movie nature, and archival canyon waterfall shot.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1939 Wyoming scenery, and then with broader vintage mountain, river, and waterfall footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame showing a mountain waterfall partly obscured by rugged rock walls and deep canyon shadow. — A waterfall descends through a narrow rocky canyon, seen from a distant visitor viewpoint.

1939 Wyoming scenic frame with blue-purple waterfall water dropping beside pale canyon rock and shadowed cliff face. — The waterfall fills more of the frame as it falls beside a bright vertical rock wall.

1939 Wyoming home-movie frame showing a tall mountain waterfall, foamy splash at the base, and evergreens along the canyon wall. — A long vertical drop ends in white spray near trees at the base of the canyon.

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame of a waterfall against a shadowed cliff, bordered by evergreens and pale rock at the canyon edge. — The final frame holds on the waterfall as it drops through shadow with trees along the right side.

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