Cottonwood Arizona-1964: Desert Landscape and Brick House

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationCottonwood, Arizona, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 Cottonwood Arizona

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Desert Landscape and Brick House — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a quiet, sun-drenched landscape in Cottonwood, Arizona. The footage opens on dry, golden grasses and scattered desert shrubs under a hazy sky, with a distant view of a small settlement. The camera pans slowly, revealing a modest brick house with a corrugated metal roof and a covered porch. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and subtle scratches, characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. This authentic archival footage evokes a sense of rural Americana and mid-century nostalgia.

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: 124565214

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: 1964 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: Cottonwood, 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 1960s editorial or documentary requests needing rural Arizona desert landscape, small-settlement views, or modest residential exteriors from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century rural residential edges, with dry grasses, scattered shrubs, utility poles, and a low brick house with a corrugated roof.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie perspective, observing open land and a nearby house with a brief handheld pan rather than a composed travelogue view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dry grass, desert shrubs, distant rooftops, utility poles, hazy sky, bare ground, a brick wall, and a covered porch.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, muted color, visible grain, light scratches, and handheld movement that read as physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, rural transition, landscape cutaway, or memory beat within a 1960s Arizona sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually suggests the edge of a small desert community, where open scrubland and modest housing sit close together in a dry landscape.
Research note: No people or logos are visible, but the residential exterior may require property-context review separate from copyright or footage licensing.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1960s Cottonwood Arizona home movie, vintage 8mm desert landscape, rural Arizona house exterior, and mid-century Southwest cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel material, then Cottonwood or Arizona footage from 1964, then broader 1960s rural Southwest landscapes and house exteriors.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Cottonwood, Arizona home-movie frame showing dry grasses, desert shrubs, and a distant small settlement. — Dry grass and shrubs with distant buildings beyond the open ground.

1964 Cottonwood, Arizona frame of scrubby open land with distant homes and utility poles in soft 8mm color. — Scrubby open land with distant rooftops and a utility pole.

1964 Cottonwood, Arizona home-movie view of dry brush, bare earth, and distant settlement structures. — Dry brush and bare ground in front of distant low buildings.

1964 Cottonwood, Arizona frame showing a modest brick house exterior with a covered porch and corrugated roof. — A low brick house with a covered porch appears beside dry yard and fencing.

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