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Arizona USA-1958: Vintage Car In Desert Landscape

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Vintage Car In Desert Landscape — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Arizona USA in 1958, showing a classic car parked in a desert landscape. The clip features a grainy, purple-tinted image with visible film scratches and dust, characteristic of 8mm home movie film. The scene captures a quiet, sunlit desert environment with sparse vegetation and rocky terrain, with the car partially obscured by foliage. The footage has a nostalgic, archival quality, offering authentic period transportation and landscape imagery from the late 1950s.

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
122805070

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

  • People 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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

Open Clip Documentation RecordRequest source information

Topics & Keywords

  • video recording of car
  • video
  • recording
  • desert
  • car
  • transportation
  • arizona USA
  • 1958
  • 1958 vintage car footage
  • Arizona desert 1958
  • 8mm home movie
  • classic car 1950s
  • vintage 8mm film
  • retro transportation
  • old film footage
  • archival desert scene
  • 1950s Americana
  • home movie nostalgia
  • classic American car
  • vintage film grain
  • 1950s road trip
  • old film recording
  • 1958 documentary footage
  • retro car in desert
  • vintage Super 8
  • 1950s family vacation
  • old film scan
  • 1950s transportation

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for productions needing late-1950s Arizona home-movie desert atmosphere with a period car and unpolished travel footage texture.
Period detail
The partially seen automobile, desert roadside setting, and metadata-supported 1958 date place the scene in a mid-century American travel context.
Home-movie behavior
The clip has the casual viewpoint of a traveler filming through or near roadside vegetation rather than staging the car or landscape.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include desert plants, palm-like fronds, a partially obscured car wheel, rocky ground, shrub cover, and strong dark frame edges.
Film character
The 8mm scan shows soft focus, purple color shift, grain, dust, scratches, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet framing that preserve the physical-film character.
Edit role
An editor could use it as a short insert, memory beat, travel cutaway, or transition into Arizona desert and roadside material.
Historical context
The footage offers a modest view of automobile travel in an arid Southwestern landscape without identifying a specific road, town, or landmark.
Research note
No people, logos, or private property are visible in the supplied frames, but copyright, location, and vehicle identification should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match
Matches searches for 1958 Arizona 8mm home movie, vintage car in desert, mid-century roadside travel footage, and purple-tinted archival desert landscape.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then with Arizona 1958 travel footage, then with broader vintage car and desert landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Arizona home-movie frame showing a soft, purple-tinted desert view partly screened by palm-like fronds and film edges.
Desert vegetation appears through a soft purple 8mm frame.
Purple-tinted 8mm frame from Arizona in 1958 with desert fronds filling the view and little background detail visible.
Palm-like desert fronds fill the tinted home-movie frame.
1958 Arizona frame showing part of a vintage car, including a wheel and bodywork, partly obscured by desert plants.
A vintage car is partly hidden behind roadside desert vegetation.
1958 Arizona home-movie frame showing rocky desert terrain, low shrubs, and soft purple-tinted 8mm texture.
Rocky desert terrain and low shrubs close the brief scene.

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