California USA-1953: Red Painted Desert Mountain Butte Plateau In Distance

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 California

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Red Painted Desert Mountain Butte Plateau In Distance — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a vast, arid desert landscape under a clear blue sky. The foreground features reddish-brown sandy slopes with sparse vegetation, leading to a distant plateau and a prominent mountain butte on the horizon. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight camera movement, offering an authentic slice of mid-century American desert scenery. This archival clip evokes nostalgia and is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or retro-themed projects.

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: 123345892

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 1398 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1953
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1953 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1950s archival requests for establishing or transition shots of an arid California desert landscape in documentary, museum, education, or period-context edits.
Period detail: The visible content offers few date-specific clues beyond the supplied 1953 home-movie metadata, with open desert, sparse scrub, reddish slopes, and distant plateau forms under clear sky.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged traveler viewpoint, observing the broad desert from a roadside or overlook with simple handheld framing rather than a composed scenic production setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include red-brown desert slopes, pale dry flats, sparse low shrubs, a blue sky, distant mesa-like ridges, and a dark film-frame border from the scan.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild color shift, exposure variation, and slight handheld movement that place the view within a mid-century home-movie record.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief desert establishing insert, route transition, geography cutaway, or memory beat between travel or western-landscape sequences.
Historical context: The footage documents a mid-century private-camera view of an undeveloped arid landscape, emphasizing terrain and distance rather than identifiable people, buildings, or events.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in the provided frames, but copyright status and location identification should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1953 8mm California desert landscape, vintage home movie red desert butte, and mid-century arid plateau travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1953 California travel views, then broader 1950s desert, road-trip, or western-landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 California 8mm frame showing an arid red-brown slope, scattered scrub, pale desert flats, and a distant plateau beneath clear blue sky. — A reddish desert slope drops toward pale flats and a distant plateau under open sky.

1953 California home-movie frame with reddish foreground terrain, scattered desert scrub, pale flats, and a low butte or plateau on the horizon. — Reddish desert ground and sparse vegetation lead toward a low landform on the horizon.

1953 California 8mm view across a red desert slope, a pale wash at the lower edge, scattered scrub, and distant flatlands fading into low ridges. — A pale wash borders the red slope while distant flat desert stretches toward low ridges.

1953 California home-movie frame looking over a broad arid plain with scattered shrubs, pale flats, a distant ridge line, and clear blue sky. — The view opens to a broad desert plain with pale flats and a low horizon line.

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