Wyoming-1951: Distant Deer Running Across Sagebrush Field

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

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Distant Deer Running Across Sagebrush Field — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1951, this vintage home movie captures a wide, arid landscape in Wyoming. Through a dark frame border, a distant deer runs across an open field of sagebrush under an overcast sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight motion blur, and natural color fading, offering authentic archival footage of wildlife in the American West. The scene evokes a sense of quiet isolation and rural life from the early 1950s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Wide shotExterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127666885

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Wyoming home-movie wildlife footage for documentary inserts, archive research, education programs, or period cutaways needing a distant deer in open sagebrush country.
Period detail: The frames may show a mid-century amateur 8mm view of open Wyoming rangeland, with sparse brush, a low horizon, and no visible modern structures or signage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie vantage, holding a wide view as a distant animal moves through the field rather than presenting a composed wildlife study.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark film-frame borders, muted sky, low hills, sagebrush, open ground, distant structures or dark shapes on the horizon, and a small running deer.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, slight exposure variation, and faded color that read as physical-film texture from an amateur camera.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet wildlife insert, rural transition, landscape cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence about the American West.
Historical context: The scene documents a wide, sparsely settled western landscape in archival home-movie form without enough visible detail to identify a ranch, road, or exact site.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or clear private-property details are visible, but copyright status and location identification should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1951 Wyoming 8mm deer, vintage home movie wildlife, distant deer running across sagebrush, and 1950s American West landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1951 Wyoming exteriors, and finally broader 1950s western wildlife or open-rangeland scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1951 Wyoming 8mm frame showing a distant deer crossing open sagebrush country under an overcast sky. — A small deer appears far across the open field, framed by dark film edges and a low horizon.

Distant deer running through a broad Wyoming sagebrush field in a soft, faded 1951 8mm home-movie frame. — The deer remains very small in the wide landscape, with brushy ground and faint hills beyond.

1951 Wyoming home-movie still with open rangeland, distant horizon, and a small deer moving through sagebrush. — A wide home-movie view keeps the animal distant against the field and muted western horizon.

Faded 1951 Wyoming 8mm frame of sagebrush rangeland where a distant deer is barely visible in the open field. — The final view emphasizes the open Wyoming landscape, with the deer reduced to a tiny moving point.

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