Arizona USA-1958: Four Teens Gathered At The Salt Flats Throwing A Football

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationArizona, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Arizona

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Four Teens Gathered At The Salt Flats Throwing A Football — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Arizona USA in 1958 showing four teenagers gathered on a vast salt flat under a bright sky. The grainy, faded color film captures the teens in casual 1950s attire—short-sleeved shirts and trousers—engaged in a casual game of football. One frame shows two teens huddled together, possibly preparing to throw the ball, while another captures a lone figure standing in the distance. The expansive white landscape stretches to a hazy mountain range on the horizon, with visible film scratches and dust adding to the authentic archival feel. The handheld camera movement suggests a personal, candid moment preserved in time.

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: 122802587

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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: 1958 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: Arizona, 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: Supports requests for 1950s Arizona home-movie footage of teenagers at a bright salt-flat or desert landscape, useful for documentary inserts about leisure, travel, youth, or open Western spaces.
Period detail: The teens' short-sleeved shirts, trousers, and soft faded 8mm color may show late-1950s casual dress and amateur vacation filming in a desert setting.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has unstaged value in the teens' loose body language as they gather, handle a football, and stand casually across the flat landscape.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include four teens, a football, pale salt-flat ground, distant hazy mountains, bright sky, handheld framing, dust, scratches, and soft exposure.
Film character: The clip carries a faded color 8mm look with soft focus, visible grain, dust specks, light scratches, and slight handheld instability typical of home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief memory beat, youth-leisure insert, desert travel cutaway, or transition into a larger sequence about Arizona and 1950s recreation.
Historical context: The scene visually places casual teenage play within a wide arid landscape, reflecting a personal home-movie view rather than a staged record of a public event.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright clearance should be assessed separately from depicted-person rights.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1958 Arizona 8mm teens football, 1950s home movie salt flats, vintage desert youth recreation, and faded color family footage Arizona.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other Arizona 1958 desert or travel scenes, then with broader 1950s youth recreation or home-movie landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Arizona home-movie frame showing teens on a pale salt flat, with two figures bent toward a football and another standing nearby. — Teens gather around a football on the salt flat.

Home-movie frame from Arizona in 1958 showing a teen bending toward a football on a bright salt-flat surface, with another person at the edge of the scene. — A teen reaches toward the football on the flat ground.

Soft 8mm frame showing the pale salt-flat surface with minimal visible activity and a dark partial shape near the bottom edge. — The camera drifts across the open salt-flat surface.

Faded 8mm view of the Arizona salt-flat landscape, with a broad pale foreground and hazy mountains along the horizon. — Wide salt-flat view with mountains in the distance.

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