Wyoming-1939: An Arid Desert With No Single Sign Of Life In It

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

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An Arid Desert With No Single Sign Of Life In It — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage footage captures a vast, arid landscape in Wyoming. The sequence reveals a desolate, sun-baked terrain with cracked earth and sparse vegetation, stretching toward distant mountains under a hazy sky. Steam or mist rises from the ground in places, suggesting geothermal activity. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic frame borders of a home movie, evoking a sense of historical isolation and untouched wilderness.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127608594

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s archival requests needing Wyoming desert or geothermal landscape footage as an editorial establishing shot, environmental cutaway, or historical travel insert.
Period detail: The frames may show a visitor-filmed Wyoming arid basin with distant mountains, pale mineral ground, and steam or mist, with no visible buildings, vehicles, people, or signage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, lingering on an empty landscape from a roadside or overlook rather than presenting a composed scenic postcard.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pale cracked or mineral ground, dark arid hills, distant mountain ridges, possible steam plumes, sparse brush, winding ground tracks, and 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, muted color fading, gate edges, and slight exposure variation that give the landscape a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, environmental transition, isolation cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence about Western travel or dry terrain.
Historical context: The footage visually places a 1939 home-movie camera in a sparsely developed Wyoming landscape, emphasizing open land and geothermal or mineral terrain without showing people or structures.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private interiors are visible, but copyright status and any location-specific property or land-use considerations should be checked before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 Wyoming 8mm desert footage, vintage home movie arid landscape, 1930s Western United States barren terrain, and geothermal steam landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Wyoming 1939 material, then broader 1930s Western landscape or arid wilderness footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Wyoming home-movie frame showing a pale dry basin, dark hills, and distant mountains with soft 8mm color and frame edges. — An empty Wyoming basin stretches toward dark hills and distant ridges.

1939 Wyoming landscape frame with pale mineral-looking ground, low hills, distant ridges, and a faint steam or mist plume. — Pale open ground and distant hills are crossed by a faint vertical plume.

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame showing a pale barren flat, low hills, possible steam, sparse brush, and a curved foreground track. — A curved track crosses the foreground of a pale, barren Wyoming flat.

1939 Wyoming home-movie frame with a curved foreground track, pale dry terrain, dark foothills, and distant mountain ridges. — The shot settles on a curved foreground track leading across dry pale terrain.

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