Arizona USA-1958: Worker Adjusting Glasses at Coal Mine

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

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Worker Adjusting Glasses at Coal Mine — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Arizona USA in 1958, showing a man in a checkered shirt and cap adjusting his glasses while standing on a coal pile. The scene shifts to a wide view of a coal mining operation with workers on a large mound of coal under a blue-tinted sky, featuring a prominent derrick structure. A close-up reveals a man in a red shirt looking toward the camera. The film exhibits characteristic grain, color distortion, and blue tint typical of 1950s home movies, capturing an authentic industrial moment.

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: 122805822

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: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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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 industrial home-movie footage, especially brief documentary inserts about coal piles, mine work, or visitors observing a work site.
Period detail: The clothing, 8mm color stock, and metadata-supported 1958 Arizona setting place the clip in a mid-century industrial visit or work-site moment.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged handling of glasses, glances toward the camera, and people moving across a coal mound rather than formal industrial documentation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a capped man adjusting glasses, dark coal slopes, small workers on a mound, a derrick-like structure, a red shirt, and strong blue sky.
Film character: The footage has dense 8mm grain, blue color shift, soft focus, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet framing that give it clear home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, industrial cutaway, or memory beat between wider mining or Arizona travel footage.
Historical context: The clip may show a coal handling or mining-related site where people were filmed informally on a dark mineral pile in the late 1950s.
Research note: Faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location, and any site permissions should be checked separately from visual identification.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Arizona 8mm coal pile, man putting on glasses at industrial site, home movie mine workers, and derrick on coal mound.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with Arizona 1958 material, then with broader coal mining, industrial labor, or mid-century travel clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1958 Arizona home-movie footage, a capped man in a checkered shirt adjusts his glasses beside a dark coal mound. — A capped man adjusts his glasses beside a coal pile.

A wide 1958 Arizona view shows small figures on a coal mound near a derrick-like structure under a blue-tinted sky. — People stand and move on a coal mound near a derrick-like structure.

A person in a red shirt with light striping bends forward on a dark coal slope in blue-shifted 8mm footage. — A red-shirted figure bends down on the coal slope.

A man in a red striped shirt looks toward the camera while standing or crouching on a coal slope in 1958 Arizona footage. — A man in a red shirt looks back toward the camera on the coal mound.

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