Wyoming-1951: Electric Transmission Pole In Middle Of Deserted Field

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Year1951
Decade1950s
LocationWyoming, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1951 Wyoming

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Electric Transmission Pole In Middle Of Deserted Field — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1951, this vintage home movie captures a vast, arid desert landscape in Wyoming. The view, framed by dark borders suggesting a window, shows sparse green shrubs under an overcast sky. A lone wooden utility pole with wires stands in the middle distance, a solitary marker in the empty terrain. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight blurriness, and film imperfections, evoking a sense of mid-century Americana and rural isolation.

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: 127666845

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: 1951 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Wyoming rural infrastructure, travel, or landscape edits needing a brief 8mm cutaway of utility wires crossing open arid country.
Period detail: The wooden utility pole, open rangeland, and soft 8mm color may show mid-century roadside or passenger-window views in Wyoming.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged traveler viewpoint, likely filmed from behind a window or vehicle frame while observing open country in passing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark window-like borders, low scrub, pale sky, distant hills, a wooden utility pole, crossarm, and overhead wires.
Film character: Soft focus, muted color, gate shadows, dust specks, and slight 8mm instability give the scene its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, transition, or memory beat for rural travel, power lines, isolation, or mid-century Western landscape.
Historical context: The view places utility infrastructure within a broad sparsely settled landscape, without enough visual evidence to identify a specific road, town, or installation.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable property identifiers are visible, but copyright, location, and any underlying property concerns should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1951 Wyoming 8mm utility pole, rural power lines, deserted field, arid Western landscape, and home-movie travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Wyoming 1951 travel footage, then broader 1950s rural infrastructure or desert landscape scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1951 Wyoming 8mm frame showing low arid scrubland and distant horizon viewed through dark window-like borders. — Open scrubland and pale sky framed by dark vertical edges.

Soft 8mm view of Wyoming scrub and distant low hills, with dark borders suggesting a window or film gate edge. — Sparse arid field with distant horizon and dark framing edges.

1951 Wyoming 8mm frame showing a wooden utility pole and overhead wires in open scrubland with distant hills. — A lone wooden utility pole stands across open Wyoming scrubland.

Soft 8mm Wyoming view of a utility pole with wires crossing open arid ground and low distant hills. — Utility wires cross a broad, empty field with low hills beyond.

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