Arizona USA-1952: Woman Standing By Newspaper Rock Petroglyphs Sign

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationArizona, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1952 Arizona

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Woman Standing By Newspaper Rock Petroglyphs Sign — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a woman in a black cardigan and plaid skirt standing in a barren desert landscape in Arizona. She poses beside a weathered sign that reads 'NEWSPAPER ROCK PETROGLYPHS,' surrounded by scattered boulders under a bright sky. The footage shows her turning slightly, with the arid terrain stretching into the distance. The warm, faded colors and film grain evoke a nostalgic mid-century American road trip aesthetic.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 123337954

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: Yes
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1952 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: Useful for 1950s American Southwest travel, roadside heritage tourism, and documentary sequences needing a brief home-movie view of Newspaper Rock petroglyph site signage.
Period detail: The woman's cardigan and plaid skirt, the simple roadside sign, and the faded 8mm color may show mid-century visitor travel in a desert archaeological landscape.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an informal tourist pose as the woman stands beside the sign and shifts slightly for the camera in an unstaged family-travel manner.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include desert badlands, scattered pale boulders, a woman in a dark cardigan, a plaid skirt, the Newspaper Rock Petroglyphs sign, bright sky, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, faded warm color, slight blur, uneven exposure, and visible contact-sheet frame borders that add physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, location-establishing cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition into material about Southwest road trips or petroglyph sites.
Historical context: The scene shows a mid-century visitor interacting with a marked petroglyph landscape, reflecting roadside sightseeing without making claims about the site's broader history.
Research note: A recognizable adult face and readable place sign are visible, so copyright, likeness, and location-identification review should be handled separately before use.
Research search match: Searches this may match include 1952 8mm Arizona travel, Newspaper Rock Petroglyphs sign, woman posing at desert landmark, and vintage Southwest home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same New Orleans to Pacific trip reel, then with 1952 Arizona desert footage, then with broader home-movie roadside landmark material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Faded 1952 8mm view of an arid Arizona landscape with pale ridges and dark vertical film-frame borders. — Desert ridges appear in a faded 8mm landscape frame.

1952 8mm frame showing an arid Arizona desert landscape with pale eroded ridges and visible film borders. — A barren desert view fills the upper contact-sheet frame.

In 1952 Arizona, a woman in a dark cardigan and plaid skirt poses beside the Newspaper Rock Petroglyphs sign among pale boulders. — A woman poses next to the Newspaper Rock Petroglyphs sign.

1952 Arizona home-movie frame of the woman turning near boulders, with part of the Newspaper Rock sign visible at the right edge. — The woman shifts position near the rocks and partially visible sign.

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