Markagunt Plateau Utah-1966: Slow Pan Across a Black Basalt Lava Field Toward a Mountain Lake

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Year1966
Decade1960s
LocationMarkagunt Plateau, Utah, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1966 · Markagunt Plateau, Utah, United States

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What is in this clip

volcanic landscape
geology
road trip scenery
American West
wilderness
family vacation
high plateau

Shot type: wide
Camera: pan · handheld
Setting: outdoor · high plateau basalt lava flow bordered by aspen and conifer forest, with a lake and forested mountains in the distance
Time and weather: daytime · summer · clear to hazy, dry
Lighting: bright natural daylight with a pale, overexposed sky
People: 0 · No people are visible.
Objects: lava boulders · basalt rock · aspen trees · conifer tree · grass clearing · lake · mountain ridge
Colors: charcoal black · brown · green · pale blue · white
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Medium

Moments in the footage

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Black lava rock fills the frame, with aspens, a conifer and a grassy clearing at the right and a lake beyond.
The camera begins panning left and the trees move toward the right edge.
The trees leave the frame, leaving lava boulders, a sliver of lake and forested mountains.
The pan settles on the open lava slope under a pale sky.

Slow Pan Across a Black Basalt Lava Field Toward a... — Clip Details

Markagunt Plateau, Utah, circa 1966 home movie footage of a broken black basalt lava flow. The shot opens with a stand of aspens and a patch of pale grass at the right edge of the rock field, with a strip of pale blue lake and forested mountains beyond. The camera then pans slowly left across the jumbled boulders until the trees leave the frame and only lava, lake and ridgeline remain. It is a single handheld wide shot in soft focus under bright daylight, silent, with no people in view.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000019

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People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1966 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: Markagunt Plateau, Utah, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Answers requests for mid-1960s amateur colour footage of southern Utah's volcanic high country, for geology, travel-history or road-trip sequences.
Period detail: The landscape carries no dated objects; the colour rendition and grain match the mid-century small-gauge film seen across the rest of the reel.
Home-movie behavior: A visitor's scenic pan taken from the edge of the flow, the kind of quick landscape record made at a roadside stop on a family trip.
What appears in frame: A slope of broken black basalt, blurred foreground boulders, green aspens and one dark conifer, a pale grass clearing, a strip of blue lake and forested mountains under a white sky.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, a blown-out sky and cool blue-green distances give the shot a handheld small-gauge texture.
Edit role: Works as a short establishing shot or landscape cutaway between signage and park sequences.
Historical context: It shows a lava field on the route to Cedar Breaks as a mid-century tourist saw it, with no roads, buildings or visitors in the frame.
Research note: No people, logos or private structures are visible; copyright in the film is separate from any location matters, and the lake is not identified by name in the footage.
Research search match: Utah lava field home movie, 1960s basalt flow footage, Markagunt Plateau lava beds, vintage volcanic landscape pan, lava rock and mountain lake.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the LAVA BEDS roadside sign and the Cedar Breaks National Monument entrance sign from this reel, then with the hoodoo and trail clips, then with other 1960s Utah landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Broken basalt lava flow meeting aspens and a grassy clearing on Utah's Markagunt Plateau, circa 1966, with a lake beyond. — The pan opens where the lava flow meets a stand of aspens, with a lake visible in the distance.
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Circa 1966 home movie frame of a southern Utah lava field, aspens at the edge and a pale blue lake under a forested ridge. — As the camera starts to move left, the lake and the mountain ridge come into clearer view above the flow.
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Jumbled black basalt slope on the Markagunt Plateau, Utah, circa 1966, with a sliver of lake and wooded mountains behind. — Mid-pan, the trees have nearly left the frame and the lava slope dominates.
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End of a circa 1966 home movie pan over a Utah lava field: bare basalt rubble, distant mountains and a white sky. — The pan ends on bare lava rubble with the lake just visible at the right edge.
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