Wyoming-1957: Car Moving On Highway Past Oil Field Machines And Towers

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationWyoming, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1957 Wyoming

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Car Moving On Highway Past Oil Field Machines And Towers — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1957, this vintage home movie captures a journey through Wyoming's rugged landscape. The footage begins with a view of a vast, overcast sky above a barren field, then transitions to rolling hills with an oil derrick standing against a stormy sky. A tall transmission tower appears in a desolate plain, followed by a closer look at an oil pump jack operating in an open field. The grainy, color-bleached visuals and film scratches evoke a strong sense of mid-century Americana and industrial expansion in the West.

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: 127733529

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: 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 footage for productions needing brief road-travel views of oil-field equipment, open plains, and Western industrial landscape.
Period detail: The 8mm color footage may show mid-century oil extraction infrastructure, utility poles, rural roads, and sparsely developed Wyoming terrain under overcast skies.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged traveler perspective, with the camera observing oil-field machinery and roadside landscape from a moving car or brief roadside stop.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pale highway view, rolling hills, oil derricks, a transmission tower, utility poles, open fields, and a pump jack in a barren plain.
Film character: Soft focus, handheld framing, faded color, visible grain, gate edges, and surface scratches give the scan a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or cutaway for travel through Wyoming, oil-field activity, or mid-century Western development.
Historical context: The footage visually places oil machinery and utility infrastructure within broad rural terrain, suggesting the industrial presence embedded in Western landscapes.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright, location, and property context before final clearance decisions.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1957 Wyoming 8mm oil field, vintage home movie pump jack, mid-century highway travel, and Western oil derrick footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1957 Wyoming travel footage, then with broader oil field, highway, and rural industry themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Wyoming 8mm frame showing a soft roadside view across open terrain and a pale road or shoulder under a cloudy sky. — A moving-car view looks across a barren roadside landscape under heavy cloud cover.

1957 Wyoming 8mm frame with an oil derrick on rolling terrain, small structures, utility poles, and stormy-looking sky. — An oil derrick stands on a low rise beyond sparse utility poles and open field.

1957 Wyoming 8mm frame showing a transmission tower, utility lines, and oil-field equipment across a sparse plain. — A transmission tower rises above a flat oil-field landscape with faint machinery near its base.

1957 Wyoming 8mm frame showing an oil pump jack set in open rural ground with fence posts, utility poles, and low hills. — A pump jack sits alone in a broad field, framed by utility poles and distant hills.

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