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Wyoming-1939: View Of Thin Wires Over Gray Rocks On A Clear Day

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

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View Of Thin Wires Over Gray Rocks On A Clear Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping view of rugged mountain terrain in Wyoming. The footage shows a dramatic landscape of gray rock formations and steep cliffs, with thin power lines stretching across the frame. The scene is filmed from a moving vehicle, evident from the changing perspective and a brief glimpse of a car's hood in the final frame. The image has a distinct purple-blue color cast typical of early color film, with visible grain and scratches. The sky is overcast, creating a moody, atmospheric feel. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of mid-20th century American wilderness and early infrastructure.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details
Exterior
Resolution
4K restored master (MP4)
License
Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery
Instant Digital Download
Duration
5s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
127609411

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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

  • color
  • objects
  • nature
  • outdoors
  • weather
  • view
  • thin
  • wires
  • gray
  • rocks
  • clear
  • day
  • wyoming
  • 1939
  • 1939 home movie footage
  • vintage 8mm film
  • Wyoming mountain landscape
  • power lines over mountains
  • old film grain
  • archival nature footage
  • 1930s American scenery
  • classic Super 8
  • rocky cliffs
  • overcast sky
  • moving vehicle view
  • early color film
  • historical footage
  • retro travel clip
  • vintage Americana
  • mountain road trip
  • old film scratches
  • 8mm home movie
  • 1939 archival
  • scenic wilderness

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
1930s Wyoming home-movie landscape footage suited for documentary inserts about mountain travel, rural infrastructure, or Western road journeys.
Period detail
The 1939 metadata, 8mm format, vehicle viewpoint, and thin utility wires over rugged rock may show late-1930s recreational or road-trip filming in Wyoming.
Home-movie behavior
The clip has a traveler-shot perspective from a moving vehicle, favoring quick scenic impressions rather than composed landscape photography.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include steep gray rock faces, wooded mountain slopes, thin overhead wires, pale sky, distant ridges, film gate edges, and a brief car hood.
Film character
The 8mm scan shows soft focus, grain, vertical scratches, uneven exposure, and a purple-blue color shift that mark it as original home-movie film.
Edit role
Editors could use it as a short cutaway, travel transition, or memory beat between road footage and wider Western landscape material.
Historical context
The frames place utility lines within a mountainous Wyoming setting, suggesting everyday infrastructure crossing a scenic road corridor without identifying a landmark.
Research note
No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any infrastructure or property concerns should still be reviewed.
Research search match
Useful searches include 1939 Wyoming 8mm mountain road footage, vintage home movie utility wires rocks, and 1930s Western landscape from car.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with the same reel, then other 1939 Wyoming travel scenes, then broader 1930s mountain-road, utility-line, and Western landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 Wyoming 8mm frame showing rugged gray cliffs and wooded slopes, with soft focus and dark film edges.
Gray rock formations and forested slopes fill the opening view.
Wyoming mountain terrain from 1939 home-movie footage, with thin utility wires cutting across the rocky slope.
Thin wires cross the right side of a rocky mountain view.
Vintage 8mm Wyoming frame showing diagonal utility wires in front of gray rock and dark mountain vegetation.
Diagonal wires pass across the rocky mountainside.
1939 Wyoming road-view frame with distant mountains, overcast sky, and a vehicle hood at the bottom edge.
A vehicle viewpoint opens to distant ridges under a cloudy sky.

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