Lubbock Texas-1957: An Animal Wandering Alone In The Grass Field

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

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An Animal Wandering Alone In The Grass Field — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1957, this vintage home movie captures a lone white animal, likely a dog, wandering through a dry, grassy field in Lubbock, Texas. The landscape is arid and expansive, with golden-brown grasses stretching to the horizon under a pale blue sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight motion blur, and natural film imperfections, conveying a sense of quiet solitude and rural Americana. The animal moves steadily across the open terrain, offering a candid glimpse into mid-century life and the natural environment of the Texas Panhandle.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127736147

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 for 1950s rural Texas or home-movie requests needing a quiet cutaway of a lone animal moving through open grassland.
Period detail: The 8mm color footage and metadata support a 1957 Lubbock setting, while the visible scene itself shows only open dry grassland and pale sky.
Home-movie behavior: The brief handheld view has the unstaged feel of someone following a wandering animal across a field rather than arranging a scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white animal, dry grasses, low brush, bare ground, a flat horizon, pale blue sky, dark frame edges, and film dust.
Film character: The clip carries an 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, visible grain, slight weave, warm color, and rounded frame-edge shadowing.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a rural insert, transitional landscape beat, animal cutaway, or quiet memory image within a mid-century sequence.
Historical context: The footage may show the open, arid character of the Texas Panhandle landscape, without visible buildings, roads, people, or identifying landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but species identification and copyright or source permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Search matches include 1957 Lubbock 8mm animal in field, Texas Panhandle home movie dog, dry grassland cutaway, and vintage rural animal footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Lubbock material, then other 1957 Texas footage, then broader rural animal, grassland, or home-movie landscape scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Lubbock 8mm frame showing a distant white animal moving through dry grassland with a flat horizon. — A white animal appears small against the dry open field.

A white animal remains distant in the dry Lubbock grassland, framed by 8mm film edges and pale sky. — The animal crosses the grassland near the center of the frame.

The 1957 home-movie frame shows the white animal closer among dry grasses, brush, and patches of bare ground. — The animal is more visible among clumps of dry grass and brush.

Near the end of the clip, the white animal moves through Lubbock dry grassland with a flat horizon in the background. — The animal continues through the open dry field as the camera holds wide.

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