Arizona USA-1952: Horses In The Desert Near Mountains

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

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Horses In The Desert Near Mountains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a long line of horses and riders traversing a rugged desert landscape in Arizona. The caravan moves across the arid terrain, framed by massive, layered mountain cliffs under a pale sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, muted color saturation, and natural film imperfections, conveying a sense of historical adventure and frontier exploration. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American travel and outdoor life.

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: 123338454

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: 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

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: Useful for 1950s archival requests needing Western travel, desert riding, or Arizona outdoor recreation footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century riders or a pack line crossing open desert, with period clues limited by distance, soft focus, and the home-movie vantage.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the value of an observer’s handheld travel record, watching the horse line move across the landscape rather than staging the action for camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a long line of horses and riders, pale desert ground, scattered rocks and scrub, layered cliffs, a light sky, and dark film gate edges.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, muted color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and frame-edge darkness that mark it as original home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or memory beat for Western travel, desert movement, horseback touring, or mid-century outdoor life.
Historical context: The scene visually connects horseback travel or recreation with a broad Arizona desert setting, but the frames do not identify a specific route, group, or event.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed; no logos, brands, private property, children, or audible music are indicated in the metadata.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1952 8mm Arizona desert horseback riders, vintage home movie horse caravan, and mid-century riders near mountains.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other 1952 Arizona travel footage, then broader desert, horseback, and American West home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 Arizona home-movie frame showing distant horses and riders moving across rocky desert beneath large layered cliffs. — A distant horse line crosses open desert with cliffs rising behind it.

1952 Arizona frame with a long group of horses and riders moving across pale desert before layered mountain cliffs. — Riders and horses continue across the desert plain below the cliffs.

Soft 1952 Arizona 8mm frame showing a distant horse caravan crossing rocky desert with cliffs filling the background. — The horse line moves across the lower edge of a broad cliff landscape.

1952 Arizona home-movie frame with the horse line partly exiting the right edge below layered desert cliffs. — The riders near the frame edge as the desert cliffs dominate the view.

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