Salt Lake City Utah USA-1973: Red Sandstone Rock Spires Under Blue Sky, Salt Lake City

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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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Red Sandstone Rock Spires Under Blue Sky, Salt Lake City — Clip Details

Vintage 1973 8mm home movie footage from Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, showing a panned view of iconic red sandstone rock formations under a vibrant blue sky with scattered white clouds. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural film artifacts, capturing the rugged beauty of Utah's desert landscape. The camera slowly pans across the craggy, weathered rock spires, emphasizing their dramatic shapes and earthy tones. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-1970s American travel and landscape cinematography.

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: 120965774

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: Supports 1970s U.S. travel, desert-landscape, and regional Utah archive requests needing brief 8mm scenic material for documentary, museum, education, or editorial use.
Period detail: The visible film frame includes large printed UTAH lettering over red rock scenery, while the color, grain, and home-movie handling are consistent with the supplied 1973 8mm metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot travel perspective, using a simple pan and title-card-like framing to record a memorable desert landscape rather than a staged production scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include red sandstone towers, blue sky, scattered white clouds, printed UTAH text, dark film frame borders, and contact-sheet duplication across four frames.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm texture with visible grain, saturated but aged color, slight exposure variation, handheld framing, and small dust or emulsion marks from the physical film source.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short Utah travel insert, geographic transition, desert cutaway, or memory beat within a 1970s road-trip or American West sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually reflects mid-1970s amateur travel documentation of Utah desert scenery, with emphasis on landscape recognition and scenic place-making rather than people or activity.
Research note: No people are visible, but the printed UTAH graphic and supplied brand/logo flag warrant rights review, with copyright, trademark, and property considerations assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1973 8mm Utah travel footage, Super 8 red rock landscape, vintage American West home movie, and Salt Lake City Utah desert scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 Utah or Salt Lake City material, then broader 1970s American West travel and desert-landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 8mm Utah travel frame showing large UTAH text over red sandstone rock formations beneath a blue, clouded sky. — UTAH title over red rock scenery.

1973 8mm frame with partial UTAH text, red rock spires, blue sky, and visible contact-sheet film edges. — Partial Utah title and sandstone towers.

1973 8mm Utah landscape frame showing red sandstone cliffs under a bright sky, with cropped title lettering at the upper edge. — Cropped title above red rock cliffs.

1973 8mm Utah travel frame showing red sandstone formations and open blue sky, with visible film-frame borders and archival grain. — Red sandstone formations under sky.

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