Grand Canyon Arizona-1972: Zion National Park Entrance And Desert Cliffs

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationGrand Canyon, Arizona, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Zion National Park Entrance And Desert Cliffs — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1972, this vintage home movie captures a scenic drive through the Grand Canyon region. The clip opens with a classic stone entrance sign for Zion National Park, a dark sedan passing by on a winding road. The footage then shifts to sweeping views of layered sandstone cliffs, showcasing the rugged beauty of the Arizona desert. The final frames reveal a vast, arid landscape with distant mesas under a pale sky, all rendered in the warm, slightly faded colors characteristic of 1970s Super 8 film. This archival footage offers a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century American travel and natural scenery.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124569838

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1972 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: Grand Canyon, 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: 1970s 8mm travel footage suited to documentary or museum edits needing visitor-shot desert park scenery and roadside Southwest landscape context.
Period detail: The faded color, handheld framing, and metadata-supported 1972 date place this as early 1970s home-movie travel footage, with no people visible in the supplied frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on sandstone cliffs and a passing desert vista from an informal travel viewpoint rather than a staged production setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include layered rock cliffs, scrub vegetation, pale blue sky, distant mesas, roadside desert ground, soft focus, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows warm faded color, visible grain, slight softness, handheld movement, and uneven exposure that give the footage recognizable home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief scenic insert, travel transition, landscape cutaway, or memory beat between broader Southwest road-trip or national-park sequences.
Historical context: The frames document a tourist-era view of arid public-land scenery, emphasizing natural formations and open road landscapes without visible crowds or facilities.
Research note: No people are visible in these frames, but metadata notes a visible park entrance logo or sign elsewhere, so trademark and location-identification review may still be needed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1972 8mm Grand Canyon region travel footage, Zion National Park entrance home movie, and vintage Southwest desert cliffs.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with other 1972 Grand Canyon or Zion-area travel shots, then with broader vintage American Southwest road-trip scenery.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 8mm travel frame showing layered desert sandstone cliffs with sparse vegetation and a pale sky in the Grand Canyon region. — Handheld view of stratified desert rock face and sparse brush.

Weathered sandstone ledges and sparse trees appear in a soft, grainy 1972 home-movie view of the desert park landscape. — Weathered rock ledges fill the frame, with trees and brush near the skyline.

A handheld 8mm frame shows a sandstone cliff face with vertical staining, brush, and shadowed foreground in the Grand Canyon region. — Striated cliff face and brush pass through the soft handheld frame.

1972 8mm travel footage view across arid scrubland toward distant mesas under a pale, lightly clouded sky. — Open desert scrub stretches toward distant mesas beneath a pale sky.

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