Oregon-1957: Passing View Of Small Green Shrubs And A Green Tree On A Sunny Day

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationOregon, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1957 Oregon

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Passing View Of Small Green Shrubs And A Green Tree On A... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1957, this vintage home movie captures a passing view of the Oregon desert landscape from a moving vehicle. The footage shows a vast, arid plain with sparse green shrubs and a lone tree standing against a hazy blue sky. Distant mountains form a purple silhouette on the horizon. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, natural grain, and subtle color shifts typical of 1950s home movies. The motion blur suggests travel through the open countryside on a bright, sunny day.

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: 127714352

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: 1957 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: Oregon, 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 1950s Oregon travel, desert landscape, road-trip, and rural West documentary sequences needing noncommercial home-movie scenery.
Period detail: The 1957 8mm source and soft color rendering support a midcentury home-movie context, while the frames show open arid terrain rather than date-specific objects.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged passenger-window perspective, recording landscape in passing as part of ordinary travel through open country.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include scrubby desert plain, low green shrubs, a lone tree, distant blue-purple hills, pale sky, motion blur, and dark frame edges.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm focus, visible grain, slight color shifts, uneven exposure, and gate-edge darkness that give it clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a travel insert, landscape transition, road-movie cutaway, or quiet memory beat between more specific Oregon scenes.
Historical context: The view reflects a midcentury home-movie encounter with the open high-desert landscape, without visible people, vehicles, buildings, or signage.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and location claims before publication.
Research search match: Searches such as 1950s Oregon desert 8mm, vintage home movie passing landscape, lone tree arid plain, and rural West travel footage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1957 Oregon footage, then broader arid landscape, road travel, and rural West home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Oregon 8mm view of low shrubs across an arid plain, with hazy hills on the horizon and dark film edges. — Passing view across scrubland toward distant hills.

1957 Oregon home-movie frame showing blurred shrubs and a distant mountain line from a moving vehicle. — Hazy horizon over an open arid plain.

1957 Oregon 8mm landscape with sparse shrubs, a blue-purple horizon, and soft home-movie color. — Low shrubs blur past in the foreground.

1957 Oregon 8mm frame of a lone tree on an arid plain, with shrubs and distant hills beyond. — A lone tree passes in the desert landscape.

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