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Nevada-1954: Recording Of A Mountain In A Sunny Day With A Building Between The

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  • Year1954
  • Decade1950s
  • LocationNevada, United States
  • Duration6s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1954 Nevada

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Recording Of A Mountain In A Sunny Day With A Building... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1954, this vintage home movie captures a rugged mountain landscape under bright sunlight. The footage reveals a rocky cliff face with a large building structure perched on the slope, surrounded by scaffolding and construction elements. The scene is bathed in a distinct blue-purple tint, likely from film degradation or lighting, with visible grain and edge damage characteristic of Super 8 footage. The camera pans slowly across the terrain, emphasizing the scale of the natural and man-made features. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century infrastructure development in Nevada.

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
127727357

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
1954 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
Nevada, 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

  • rock
  • mountain
  • sun
  • animals
  • recording
  • sunny
  • day
  • building
  • rocks
  • buildings
  • landmarks
  • nevada
  • 1954
  • 1954 Nevada mountain footage
  • vintage 8mm film
  • Super 8 construction site
  • old home movie
  • archival mountain clip
  • retro 1950s footage
  • rocky cliff with building
  • blue tinted film
  • 8mm home movie
  • historic construction
  • Nevada landscape
  • vintage film grain
  • 1950s infrastructure
  • old film footage
  • archival 8mm
  • retro construction
  • mountain building
  • 1954 home movie
  • vintage Super 8

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1950s Nevada archival requests needing a brief landscape or infrastructure cutaway from amateur 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail
The clip may show a mid-century mountain-side structure or construction area, with era context supported by the 1954 8mm metadata rather than visible signage.
Home-movie behavior
The footage has a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on the rocky slope and building from a distance without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a rocky cliff face, bright sunlit stone, a slope-side building, scaffolding or rail-like framework, dark frame edges, and blue-purple film color.
Film character
The 8mm scan shows coarse grain, blue-purple color shift, soft focus, uneven exposure, and black frame borders that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role
An editor could use it as a short cutaway, geographic transition, infrastructure insert, or memory beat within a Nevada or mid-century landscape sequence.
Historical context
The view places human-built structure against steep desert rock, suggesting infrastructure or visitor access in a rugged Nevada setting without identifying the site.
Research note
No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related use should still be reviewed.
Research search match
Search matches include 1954 Nevada 8mm mountain footage, rocky cliff with building, mid-century home movie landscape, and vintage infrastructure cutaway.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1954 Nevada material, then broader rocky landscape or construction-context footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Nevada 8mm frame showing a sunlit rocky slope with a building or platform near the upper edge.
Rock face and slope-side structure seen through blue-purple 8mm color shift.
1954 Nevada home-movie frame of rugged rock below a slope-side structure and framework.
Cliff detail with building edge and framework above the rocks.
Blue-purple 8mm frame from Nevada showing rock formations and visible structural framework on the slope.
Rock formations and framework fill the frame as the camera pans across the slope.
1954 Nevada 8mm frame showing a rugged hillside crossed by structural framework and sunlit rock.
Framework traces across the rocky hillside in the final visible frame.

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