Wyoming-1957: Oil Well and Mountains from Countryside Road

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

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Oil Well and Mountains from Countryside Road — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1957, this vintage home movie captures a journey through the Wyoming countryside. The footage shows a rural landscape with an oil pump jack operating in a flat field, followed by sweeping views of rolling hills and distant mountains under a hazy sky. The perspective suggests a view from a moving vehicle, with the frame's edges indicating a handheld camera. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: grainy texture, faded colors, and subtle scratches, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American road trip.

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: 127733554

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s archival requests needing rural Wyoming road-travel views, oil-field context, and mountain countryside cutaways for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-century rural infrastructure, including an oil pump jack, unpaved roadside views, ranch-style buildings, and open mountain terrain.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged traveler viewpoint, with the camera observing landscape details from a moving vehicle rather than presenting a formal survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pump jack in a flat field, scrubby hills, distant mountains, rural buildings, a roadside, open grass, and faded sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, faded color, gate edges, scratches, and handheld framing that support its home-movie origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, road-trip transition, rural energy cutaway, or memory beat between longer Wyoming sequences.
Historical context: The clip provides visual context for automobile-era travel through sparsely settled Wyoming landscapes where extraction activity and ranch scenery appear close together.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are evident, but copyright, location identification, and possible property depiction should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1957 Wyoming 8mm countryside driving footage, oil pump jack home movie, rural mountain landscape, and vintage road trip cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Wyoming 1957 travel footage, then related mid-century rural road, oil-field, ranch, or mountain landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Wyoming 8mm frame showing an oil pump jack in open countryside with utility poles and distant low hills. — Oil pump jack seen across a flat rural field.

Wyoming countryside view from the 1957 8mm clip, showing scrub-covered hills and distant mountain ridges. — Rolling scrubland and distant mountains fill the frame.

1957 Wyoming home-movie frame with rural buildings near a road, backed by a steep scrub-covered hillside. — Rural buildings pass by below a dark hillside.

Wyoming 1957 8mm frame showing a small rural building beside a dirt road with a mountain slope in the background. — A rural building and dirt road sit below a mountain slope.

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