New Mexico USA-1973: Santa Fe's Desert Inn Motel Sign and Mid-Century Building

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationNew Mexico, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 New Mexico

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Santa Fe's Desert Inn Motel Sign and Mid-Century Building — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 in New Mexico, captured from a moving vehicle. The clip shows a low-angle view of the Santa Fe's Desert Inn, a mid-century modern building with stone pillars and a prominent sign advertising a cocktail lounge, dining room, and heated pool. The scene features a bright blue sky with fluffy white clouds, evergreen trees, and a classic American car briefly visible. The footage exhibits natural film grain, slight color fading, and a distinctive 1970s aesthetic, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, nostalgic content, or retro-themed projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120963175

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 1381 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1973
Reel-level location note: new mexico, calsbad,santa fe,taos
Date: 1973 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: New Mexico, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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: 1970s New Mexico home-movie footage suited for documentary or editorial requests needing a roadside motel exterior, mid-century travel architecture, or Santa Fe visitor perspective.
Period detail: The motel sign, low horizontal building, stone columns, roadside frontage, and passing-car viewpoint support a 1970s travel-era setting consistent with the supplied 1973 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged traveler’s glance from a moving vehicle rather than a composed architectural record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the Santa Fe’s Desert Inn sign, a low motel building, stone pillars, evergreen trees, roadway edge, bright clouded sky, and a briefly visible dark car shape.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild color shift toward purple-blue, gate edges, and handheld motion from the moving camera.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief location insert, roadside transition, motel cutaway, or memory beat within a 1970s American travel sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents a roadside hospitality setting in New Mexico through a home-movie lens, showing how motel signage and low-slung architecture presented services to passing motorists.
Research note: The motel name and sign are visible, so trademark or location-identification review may be needed separately from copyright, with no likeness concerns indicated by the visible frames.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1973 New Mexico 8mm motel sign, Santa Fe Desert Inn exterior, 1970s roadside lodging home movie, and mid-century motel building footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 New Mexico or Santa Fe roadside views, then broader 1970s motel, travel, and highway architecture material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 New Mexico home-movie frame showing the Santa Fe’s Desert Inn sign beside a low motel building, trees, roadway, and clouded sky. — Santa Fe’s Desert Inn sign and roadside building.

1973 New Mexico frame with a partial Santa Fe’s Desert Inn sign, stone motel entrance pillar, evergreen trees, and bright clouds above the low building. — Partial motel sign and stone-front exterior.

1973 New Mexico home-movie frame showing the motel facade, stone column, evergreen tree, curtained windows, road surface, and cloud-filled sky. — Motel facade passing by the camera.

1973 New Mexico frame showing the motel’s low facade, stone pillar, evergreen tree, roadway, clouded sky, and a dark car shape entering the lower-right edge. — Roadside motel exterior with passing vehicle edge.

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