Wyoming-1939: Driving Down Road Past River In Mountains

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

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Driving Down Road Past River In Mountains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a scenic drive through Wyoming's mountainous wilderness. Viewed from a moving vehicle, the footage shows a river winding alongside a forested hillside under an overcast sky. The natural landscape is lush with evergreen trees, and the motion blur conveys the journey's pace. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and light scratches, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127608765

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: 1930s Wyoming home-movie road footage for productions needing a brief scenic travel insert, mountain-river cutaway, or period landscape transition.
Period detail: The clip may show a late-1930s visitor view from inside a moving vehicle, with window framing, forested slopes, river water, and overcast mountain terrain visible.
Home-movie behavior: The unstaged value is the passenger-eye view of a scenic drive, where the camera records the passing river and hills as a travel memory rather than a composed landscape shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark car-window framing, a river beside the road, evergreen-covered hillsides, rocky banks, pale overcast sky, water surface, and soft motion blur.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries period color softness, visible grain, gate-edge darkness, light scratches, and handheld movement that support its home-movie archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a travel insert, road-trip transition, geographic cutaway, or quiet memory beat between Wyoming wilderness or 1930s vacation scenes.
Historical context: The footage documents a private traveler’s view of a mountain river corridor in Wyoming without showing people, signage, vehicles, buildings, or identifiable landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status, source ownership, and exact location identification should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 Wyoming 8mm mountain road footage, home movie river drive, 1930s scenic travel film, and forested mountain river cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then with Wyoming 1939 travel footage, then with broader 1930s mountain driving, river, and national-park-style scenery.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Wyoming home-movie view of a river and evergreen hillside passing outside a dark vehicle window. — A river runs beside a forested slope, partially framed by the moving vehicle window.

A 1939 Wyoming mountain river scene appears beyond dark car-window framing during a moving road shot. — The road-side river and distant wooded slopes pass by under an overcast sky.

Wyoming mountain river scenery from a 1939 8mm home movie, framed by the vehicle interior and window edge. — A passenger view looks out across the river toward dark evergreen slopes.

A brief 1939 Wyoming road-view frame shows a river bend, rocky shoreline, and wooded mountain slopes through the car window. — The river curves past a rocky bank with forested mountains rising on both sides.

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