Oregon-1957: Highway Road Clear Field A Singular Tree Off In The Distance

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationOregon, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1957 Oregon

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Highway Road Clear Field A Singular Tree Off In The Distance — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1957, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched highway journey through the Oregon desert. The footage shows a long, empty road stretching into the distance, flanked by sparse shrubbery and a single, isolated tree standing alone in the arid landscape. The view, likely filmed from a moving vehicle, reveals distant mountains under a clear blue sky, with the characteristic grain and color palette of mid-century Super 8 film. This archival clip evokes a sense of quiet Americana and open-road nostalgia.

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: 127714371

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

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: 1950s Oregon road-travel footage suited for documentary or educational sequences needing rural highway, desert landscape, or mid-century open-road atmosphere.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, soft exposure, empty two-lane highway, and undeveloped scrubland may show a mid-century road journey through arid Oregon terrain.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a passenger filming through a moving vehicle window, preserving a brief roadside view rather than a composed scenic shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an empty paved highway, yellow center line, low desert shrubs, distant blue hills, pale sky, a lone tree, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm texture with soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, slight color fading, and handheld motion from travel.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a road-trip insert, geographic transition, quiet memory beat, or cutaway between broader travel or Western landscape scenes.
Historical context: The scene documents a sparsely developed roadside landscape and automobile-era travel perspective without showing people, buildings, signage, or identifiable businesses.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and confirm location claims against the original reel context.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1950s 8mm Oregon highway footage, vintage desert road home movie, empty rural road with lone tree, and mid-century travel landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1957 Oregon travel footage, then broader vintage highway, desert, and open-road Americana material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Oregon 8mm frame showing a lone tree across arid scrubland with hazy hills in the distance. — A solitary tree stands beyond low roadside vegetation under a pale sky.

1957 Oregon roadside view from a moving vehicle, with empty pavement, yellow line, scrubland, and distant hills. — The camera looks along an empty paved road bordered by dry vegetation.

1957 Oregon 8mm travel frame with the road edge in the foreground and scrub-covered terrain stretching to distant hills. — A low roadside view shows pavement, scrubland, and a blue ridge on the horizon.

1957 Oregon 8mm frame showing open roadside scrub and distant mountains, filmed from a moving vehicle. — The road slips past an open arid landscape with blue hills across the horizon.

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