Wyoming-1939: A View Of A Mountain And Electric Wires As An Old Train Passes By

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

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A View Of A Mountain And Electric Wires As An Old Train... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a rugged mountain landscape in Wyoming. The footage shows steep rocky cliffs covered in dark forest, with power lines stretching across the frame. A steam train moves through the valley below, its locomotive visible in the final frames. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic early 20th-century travel experience. The camera appears to be handheld, panning across the dramatic terrain.

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: 127609404

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 footage suited for documentary or museum edits needing a brief mountain railroad and utility-line landscape cutaway.
Period detail: The visible steam-era train, pole-mounted wires, and 8mm color home-movie handling support a late-1930s travel-film reading without identifying a specific railroad or landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a traveler’s viewpoint, panning across cliffs and wires as the train enters the valley scene below.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include steep rocky mountainsides, dark forested slopes, overhead utility lines, poles, a rail corridor, and a steam train with smoke in the final view.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight blur, gate edges, and handheld framing that preserve the texture of a physical home-movie scan.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a short establishing insert, travel transition, railroad cutaway, or memory beat linking mountain landscape with early motor-era infrastructure.
Historical context: The footage visually connects scenic western terrain with rail and electrical infrastructure, while avoiding unsupported claims about the exact route or site.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any railroad, land, or property permissions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1939 Wyoming 8mm train footage, mountain railroad home movie, steam train valley cutaway, and vintage western utility wires.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Wyoming 1939 travel footage, then broader mountain railroad or utility-in-landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame showing a steep rocky mountain face, dark forest, and utility wires stretched across the sky. — Rocky Wyoming mountainside with utility wires crossing the frame.

1939 Wyoming travel-film frame with a rugged cliff, forested upper slope, and diagonal utility lines in the foreground. — Cliff and forested ridge seen through utility wires.

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame showing rocky cliffs, utility poles, wires, and a rail corridor through the lower valley. — Utility poles and wires run below rugged mountain cliffs.

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame showing a steam train passing below rocky cliffs, with utility poles, wires, and smoke visible. — Steam train passes beneath cliffs and utility lines.

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