Lubbock Texas-1956: A Dog In A Dry Grassland

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Year1956
Decade1950s
LocationLubbock, Texas, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1956 Lubbock Texas

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A Dog In A Dry Grassland — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1956, this vintage home movie captures a white dog moving through a vast, dry grassland in Lubbock, Texas. The footage shows the dog walking and sniffing the ground across an open, arid field under an overcast sky. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, natural grain, and a muted color palette of beige, brown, and gray. The scene evokes a quiet, nostalgic moment of rural life, with the dog as the central subject in a wide, desolate landscape.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127738070

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: 1956 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: Supports requests for 1950s Texas home-movie footage of rural animals, dry grassland, and quiet regional landscape cutaways for documentary or educational use.
Period detail: The 8mm home-movie format, muted color, and open rural setting support the 1956 Lubbock, Texas metadata, with no visible landmarks or dated objects in frame.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes a white dog moving and sniffing through an open field, preserving an unstaged domestic animal moment rather than a formal wildlife scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white dog, dry grass, sparse shrubs, flat open ground, pale sky, distant low horizon, and soft film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip has a soft 8mm look with visible grain, muted beige-gray color, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet framing that reflects scanned physical film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural insert, animal cutaway, quiet transition, or memory beat within a sequence about home life, land, weather, or regional Texas landscapes.
Historical context: The footage visually places a domestic dog in a broad, dry grassland environment, suggesting everyday rural or edge-of-town surroundings without identifying a specific property.
Research note: No people, faces, brands, or private interiors are visible, but users should still confirm copyright, source permissions, and any property context from the archive record.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1950s Texas 8mm dog footage, Lubbock dry grassland home movie, white dog in open field, and rural animal cutaway archive film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1956 Lubbock footage, then broader 1950s Texas rural landscapes or domestic animal home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

A white dog moves through dry grass in archival 1956 Lubbock, Texas 8mm home-movie footage, framed wide against brush and open land. — White dog crossing a patch of dry grass in an open Texas field.

The dog appears small against a broad, pale grassland in the 1956 Lubbock home-movie clip, with shrubs and a low horizon visible. — Small white dog moving across a wide, dry grassland.

A soft, grainy wide frame shows the white dog partly blending into dry grass across an open Lubbock, Texas field. — The dog is faintly visible within the pale, dry field.

The white dog is visible near sparse shrubs in a broad dry field, with the 8mm frame showing muted color and a low horizon. — White dog near shrubs in the dry grassland landscape.

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