Lubbock Texas-1957: Black And White Video Of A Desert With Shrubs And Grasses

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationLubbock, Texas, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Lubbock Texas

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Black And White Video Of A Desert With Shrubs And Grasses — Clip Details

LUBBOCK TEXAS-1957: A grainy, black and white 8mm home movie captures a desolate, snow-covered landscape. A solitary, dark shrub stands in the middle distance, while a small, indistinct animal moves across the white field. The footage shows significant film wear, including scratches, dust, and a prominent hair-like mark, characteristic of vintage Super 8 home movie stock. The scene evokes a quiet, isolated winter moment from the late 1950s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127735693

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: Lubbock, Texas, 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 Texas 8mm footage for productions needing a quiet winter landscape insert, rural cutaway, or archival weather beat.
Period detail: The sparse open ground, low shrub, and monochrome 8mm texture may show a rural Lubbock-area winter scene in 1957, as indicated by the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds on an ordinary snowy field without staging, preserving a home-movie observer's view of weather, land, and small movement in the distance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include snow-covered ground, a dark shrub or brush pile, faint grasses, a small indistinct animal-like shape, soft horizon, and film gate edges.
Film character: The clip carries heavy 8mm grain, muted exposure, soft focus, dust, scratches, and frame-divider marks that read as physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief winter establishing insert, rural transition, memory beat, or quiet cutaway between family or travel scenes.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for a mid-century home-movie record of open land and winter conditions near Lubbock without making claims beyond the visible field.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still verify copyright status and avoid treating the indistinct animal or location as independently identified.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1950s Texas snow landscape, Lubbock 8mm winter field, vintage home movie shrubland, and black and white rural weather footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1957 Lubbock material, then broader 1950s rural winter landscape or home-movie weather scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Lubbock-area 8mm frame showing a snowy open field, faint grasses, and a dark shrub under soft exposure. — A solitary shrub sits in a snowy open field with faint grasses visible through the white ground.

1957 Lubbock-area 8mm frame of a snow-covered field with a shrub and a small indistinct animal-like shape nearby. — The snowy field remains centered on the shrub, with a small dark shape crossing or resting near the ground.

1957 Lubbock-area 8mm frame showing a blurred shrub or brush pile across a snow-covered rural field. — A soft, grainy view of a shrub or brush pile sits low across the snowy landscape.

1957 Lubbock-area 8mm frame with a washed snowy field, faint grasses, and a barely defined shrub form. — The final frame is faint and washed, leaving grasses and a shrub form only lightly visible in the snow.

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