Cottonwood Arizona-1964: Overgrown Field Above Small Town

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

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Overgrown Field Above Small Town — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a quiet, sun-drenched view of a vast, overgrown field overlooking a small Arizona town. The camera pans slowly across dry grass and scattered shrubs, revealing a wooden fence, utility poles, and distant buildings under a hazy sky. A small mobile home appears briefly, adding to the rural, mid-century Americana feel. The footage shows natural film grain and slight color fading, characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. This archival clip evokes a sense of nostalgia and quiet observation of everyday life in a developing suburban landscape.

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: 124565322

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 editorial or documentary requests needing a quiet Cottonwood, Arizona outskirts view from home-movie footage.
Period detail: Visible clues include dry open ground, utility poles, low fencing, small outbuildings, and distant town structures that may show mid-century rural edge development.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged observer's perspective, with the camera slowly scanning an everyday field and town edge rather than a formal scenic subject.
What appears in frame: The frames show dry grass, scattered shrubs, wooden fencing, utility poles, a small shed or trailer form, distant low buildings, and a hazy horizon.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, visible grain, muted color, gate edges, and slight exposure variation typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing cutaway, transition, or memory beat for small-town Arizona, rural outskirts, or changing land use.
Historical context: The view suggests a town perimeter where open land, utility lines, fences, and modest structures meet the distant built environment.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but property and location identification should still be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1964 Cottonwood Arizona 8mm home movie, rural town overlook, dry field, utility poles, and small-town outskirts.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1964 Cottonwood material, then broader Arizona rural landscape and town-edge footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Cottonwood, Arizona home-movie frame looking across a dry field toward low distant buildings and a utility pole. — A dry field and low fence overlook distant town structures beneath a hazy sky.

Cottonwood, Arizona field view from 1964 with dry grass, red shrubs, a wooden fence, utility poles, and distant low buildings. — The pan reveals dry roadside growth, fencing, utility poles, and buildings in the distance.

1964 Cottonwood, Arizona frame showing a field edge with shrubs, a fence, utility pole, and distant town structures. — Shrubs and fencing sit along the field edge with low buildings visible beyond.

Cottonwood, Arizona home-movie frame from 1964 with a small shed or trailer at the field edge and distant town buildings beyond. — A small shed or trailer appears at the field edge as utility poles lead toward the distant town.

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