Lubbock Texas-1957: A Hazy Day In A Dry Field With A Distant White Animal

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationLubbock, Texas, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 Lubbock Texas

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A Hazy Day In A Dry Field With A Distant White Animal — Clip Details

LUBBOCK TEXAS-1957: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a quiet, overcast day in a dry, open field. The footage shows a sparse landscape with scattered leafless trees under a pale sky, with a white animal, possibly a deer, briefly visible in the distance. The scene is enveloped in a hazy, fog-like atmosphere, with the image gradually fading to white and then black. The film exhibits natural grain, slight blurriness, and the characteristic frame edges of an old Super 8 home movie, evoking a sense of forgotten Americana and rural life in the late 1950s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127735868

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful 1950s 8mm rural Texas field footage for documentary cutaways, environmental transitions, or hunting-landscape context.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1950s rural land near Lubbock, with open dry grass, sparse trees, and no visible modern structures in the sampled frames.
Home-movie behavior: The home-movie value is in the quiet, observational view of an open field, held from a casual amateur vantage rather than a staged production setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dry grass, leafless trees, pale sky, dark film borders, a distant white animal-like shape, and a small distant upright figure or object.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, muted color, gate edges, dust, grain, and exposure variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief rural insert, seasonal cutaway, memory transition, or atmospheric lead-in to a hunting or land-use sequence.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for mid-century rural West Texas terrain without asserting a specific activity beyond the dry field and distant forms visible.
Research note: No faces, logos, or readable property identifiers are visible, but copyright status and any land-access or likeness concerns should be checked separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s 8mm rural Texas field, Lubbock home movie landscape, dry prairie cutaway, distant animal footage, and vintage hunting context.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Lubbock 1957 material, then broader 1950s rural field, hunting, or dry-land landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Lubbock-area 8mm frame showing a dry field, leafless trees, pale sky, and a small distant white shape. — Dry field and sparse trees under a pale sky, with a distant white shape in the grass.

1957 Lubbock-area field view with dry grass, bare trees, and a distant white animal-like form near the horizon. — A distant white animal-like form appears across the dry field near sparse trees.

1957 Lubbock-area 8mm frame showing dry grass, trees, and a small distant upright figure or object in the field. — A small distant upright figure or object is visible in the dry field below the tree line.

Dark end frame from the 1957 Lubbock-area 8mm clip, with the field image largely faded to black. — The image fades to a dark frame, leaving only faint field detail at the bottom edge.

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