Salt Lake City Utah USA-1973: Utah Text over Desert Landscape

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationSalt Lake City, Utah, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 Salt Lake City Utah

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Utah Text over Desert Landscape — Clip Details

Vintage 1973 home movie footage from Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, featuring a classic title card with bold black text reading 'UTAH' over a scenic desert landscape. The image shows rugged red rock formations under a vibrant blue sky with fluffy white clouds, characteristic of Utah's iconic scenery. The film exhibits natural grain and slight color fading typical of 8mm home movie stock, with a soft vignette border framing the shot. This nostalgic intro serves as a visual identifier for a personal travel memory or regional documentary, capturing the essence of mid-20th century American home cinema.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 120965746

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 1395 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: honeymoon
Reel-level year note: 1973
Reel-level location note: salt lake,utah,sf, california,monerey,lake tahoe
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: Salt Lake City, Utah, 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: This 1973 8mm clip fits requests for a Utah travel-title insert or regional identifier in documentaries, museum programs, education edits, and period home-movie sequences.
Period detail: The bold printed word UTAH over red rock scenery and blue sky supports the supplied 1973 travel-film context without identifying a specific landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in its visitor-made title-card function, marking a personal travel segment rather than documenting staged action or a public event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the large UTAH lettering, reddish rock formations, blue sky, white clouds, dark film borders, and slight frame-to-frame movement.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, warm color drift, contrasty blacks, and contact-print style edge darkness consistent with home-movie film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a chapter opener, regional transition, map-adjacent insert, or memory beat before Utah travel footage from the same reel.
Historical context: The clip reflects a home-movie practice of filming or inserting place-title graphics to organize vacation footage around a state destination.
Research note: No people are visible, but the printed graphic and underlying artwork should be reviewed for copyright or trademark concerns separate from likeness or property issues.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1970s 8mm Utah title card, vintage home movie Utah intro, Salt Lake City travel reel identifier, and Super 8 state banner footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1973 Salt Lake City or Utah material, and finally broader 1970s American road-trip title-card footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Utah travel-title frame with bold black UTAH text over reddish rock formations, white clouds, and blue sky within dark 8mm film borders. — UTAH title card over desert rock scenery.

1973 Utah title-card frame showing bold UTAH text across a scenic sky, with red rock formations at the left and lower edge. — Bold UTAH lettering with rocks and clouds.

1973 8mm frame of a Utah place-title graphic, with large black letters set against clouds, blue sky, and reddish rock scenery. — Utah place-title frame on 8mm film.

Final visible 1973 Utah title-card frame with black UTAH lettering, red rock formations, white clouds, and dark scan borders from the 8mm source. — Final frame of the Utah title-card shot.

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