Wyoming-1939: A Train Running Near An Overhead Line And Some Mountains At The

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

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A Train Running Near An Overhead Line And Some Mountains... — Clip Details

WYOMING-1939: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a steam train rolling through a rugged mountain landscape. The train, with its classic locomotive and freight cars, moves along tracks beside a towering rocky cliff. Overhead power lines and wooden utility poles line the route, adding to the early 20th-century industrial feel. The footage shows natural yellow grass in the foreground and a dramatic purple-tinged sky, characteristic of aged film stock. The camera appears to be handheld, offering a dynamic, nostalgic perspective of mid-century transportation in the American West.

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: 127609408

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 American West transportation requests needing vintage home-movie footage of a steam train moving through rugged mountain scenery.
Period detail: Visible clues include a steam locomotive, freight cars, wooden utility poles, overhead wires, and an 8mm color home-movie look consistent with the 1939 Wyoming metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot roadside viewpoint, observing the train and mountain landscape without staging, narration, or visible people.
What appears in frame: The frames show a steam train, freight cars, rocky cliffs, yellow grass, utility poles, overhead wires, and a mountainous valley backdrop.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, color shift toward blue and purple, uneven exposure, and slight handheld framing as archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief transportation insert, western travel cutaway, industrial landscape transition, or memory beat in a period montage.
Historical context: The footage places rail movement beside electrical or telegraph lines in a sparse mountain setting, suggesting infrastructure crossing a rural western landscape.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any railroad or land-related permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1939 Wyoming 8mm train footage, steam train in mountains, western railroad home movie, and vintage rail landscape cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Wyoming travel footage, then other 1939 Wyoming clips, then broader 1930s rail, mountain road, and American West transportation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame showing a steam train beside rocky cliffs, yellow grass, utility poles, and overhead wires. — Steam train moves along tracks beneath a rugged mountain cliff and overhead utility lines.

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame with a locomotive, freight cars, utility poles, wires, grass, and steep rocky terrain. — Freight cars follow the locomotive through a narrow mountain landscape lined with poles and wires.

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame showing a rocky mountain slope, dark valley terrain, and a utility pole near the rail route. — The view shifts toward the surrounding cliffs and valley as the train leaves the frame.

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame of a mountain valley with rocky outcrops and partial utility lines along the route. — Rock formations and a dark mountain valley fill the final view, with utility lines partly visible.

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