Wyoming-1939: Lake Under Cumulus Clouds

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

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Lake Under Cumulus Clouds — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside view from a moving vehicle. The frame shows a vast expanse of water under a dramatic sky filled with thick cumulus clouds, with a distant shoreline visible on the horizon. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, film grain, and subtle scratches, with a slight motion blur suggesting movement. The color palette features muted blues, grays, and whites, evoking a nostalgic, timeless atmosphere. This archival clip offers authentic period footage ideal for historical documentaries, retro-themed projects, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 127608899

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 8mm home-movie lake and cloud footage for documentary inserts, regional atmosphere, or natural landscape cutaways.
Period detail: The scene offers few dateable clues beyond the 1939 home-movie metadata, with only lake, shoreline, sky, and vehicle-framed movement visible.
Home-movie behavior: The moving viewpoint gives the clip an unstaged traveler perspective, observing weather and water from inside or beside a vehicle.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include broad lake water, distant low shoreline, layered cumulus clouds, pale sky, dark window or vehicle framing, film grain, and vertical scratches.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, muted blue-gray color, visible grain, exposure variation, gate edges, and light scratches consistent with physical home-movie film.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a landscape insert, weather transition, regional travel cutaway, or quiet memory beat between family or road-trip scenes.
Historical context: As a home-movie landscape view, it documents recreational travel looking across a Wyoming lake without showing people, buildings, or identifiable landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and confirm location or reel provenance for their use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 Wyoming lake footage, 8mm home movie clouds over water, 1930s travel landscape, and vintage shoreline cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1939 Wyoming footage, then 1930s lake, cloud, road-travel, and quiet landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Wyoming home-movie frame showing lake water, distant shoreline, pale sky, and cumulus clouds through dark vertical framing. — Clouds hang over a broad lake with a low shoreline on the horizon.

1939 Wyoming 8mm view of a lake under layered clouds, with a distant shoreline visible through vehicle-like framing. — A low shoreline sits below layered clouds across the lake.

1939 Wyoming home-movie still with heavy cumulus clouds, lake water, and a narrow distant shoreline seen from a moving viewpoint. — Heavy clouds fill the sky above a lake and distant shoreline.

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame showing bright cumulus clouds, blue-gray lake water, and a distant shore through dark vehicle or window edges. — Bright cloud banks stretch over the lake near the end of the clip.

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