Cottonwood Arizona-1964: An Abandoned Field With Brick Building

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

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An Abandoned Field With Brick Building — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a quiet, sun-drenched scene in Cottonwood, Arizona. A weathered brick building with a corrugated metal roof stands in the foreground, its surface marked by time and exposure. The surrounding landscape is an overgrown, dry field with sparse vegetation, suggesting abandonment. In the distance, a residential neighborhood with houses and utility poles stretches across the horizon under a pale sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slight color fading, and natural camera movement, evoking a sense of forgotten Americana and mid-century nostalgia. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 124565240

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

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 1960s Arizona cutaways needing a quiet rural edge, vacant lot, or modest exterior building detail from real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frame may show mid-century Cottonwood development cues in the low brick structure, corrugated roof, utility poles, and scattered houses beyond the dry field.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds a casual roadside or yard-side view, preserving an unstaged look at an ordinary building and surrounding open ground.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a brick wall, corrugated metal roof edge, dry grasses, bare ground, distant houses, utility poles, pale sky, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm grain, soft focus, slight color fading, gate edges, and mild handheld drift that give the shot its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet insert, transition, location cutaway, or memory beat for rural Arizona, abandonment, or changing-town sequences.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for a sparsely built residential edge in Cottonwood, without enough evidence to identify the structure or its use.
Research note: No people, faces, brands, or audible music are indicated, but copyright and any property-related permissions should be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Search matches include 1964 Cottonwood Arizona 8mm exterior, abandoned field with brick building, rural town edge, dry vacant lot, and vintage home movie cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1964 Cottonwood material, then broader rural Arizona exteriors or abandoned-field themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Cottonwood, Arizona 8mm frame showing a brick exterior wall, dry field, and distant residential area under a pale sky. — Brick wall and dry field at the edge of a residential area.

1964 Cottonwood, Arizona view of a brick structure at right, open dry ground, and a low neighborhood on the horizon. — Open ground beside a brick structure with houses beyond.

1964 Cottonwood, Arizona frame with a brick wall on the right, scrubby vacant ground, and homes across the background. — Scrubby vacant ground with a brick wall and distant neighborhood.

Final 1964 Cottonwood, Arizona frame showing the brick building edge, dry field, and low houses in faded 8mm color. — Faded 8mm view of a brick building beside dry open land.

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