Cottonwood Arizona-1968: Man Building A Brick Wall

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Year1968
Decade1960s
LocationCottonwood, Arizona, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1968 Cottonwood Arizona

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Man Building A Brick Wall — Clip Details

A man in a white work shirt with a logo carefully lays concrete blocks to build a low brick wall in Cottonwood, Arizona, in 1968. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the detailed process of masonry work under bright sunlight, with a rural landscape of trees, power lines, and distant hills in the background. The grainy, color-graded quality of the Super 8 home movie evokes a strong sense of mid-century Americana and DIY craftsmanship.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 124627814

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: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 1040 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: scottsdale
Reel-level year note: 1968
Reel-level location note: scottsdale arizona
Date: 1968 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: Cottonwood, Arizona, 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s home-movie footage useful for documentary or museum edits needing a brief view of small-scale masonry work in Cottonwood, Arizona.
Period detail: The white work shirt, concrete blocks, wood forms, rural yard, utility poles, and soft 8mm color may show late-1960s residential or local building activity.
Home-movie behavior: The man appears focused on practical wall construction, giving the clip an unstaged record of hands-on labor rather than a posed demonstration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in a white logo shirt, concrete blocks, mortar or grout, wood forms, rebar, trees, power lines, and distant hills.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, color shift, and slight handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a cutaway, insert, or transitional work-detail shot for sequences about home improvement, labor, or Arizona life.
Historical context: The footage places manual masonry within a sunlit rural or semi-rural setting, showing everyday construction activity without broader claims about the site.
Research note: A visible adult face and a shirt logo require likeness and brand review; copyright, likeness, and property questions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1968 Cottonwood Arizona 8mm masonry, man building concrete block wall, vintage home movie construction, and rural DIY labor.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Cottonwood 1968 material, then broader 1960s home construction or trades footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Cottonwood, Arizona in 1968, a man works on a low concrete block wall in a sunlit yard with trees and distant hills behind him. — A man lays concrete blocks for a low wall outdoors.

The man leans over a partially built wall, working near wooden forms in the Cottonwood yard captured on 8mm film. — The worker reaches across the wall while continuing the masonry work.

A close view shows the worker beside the masonry project.

The man continues wall construction beside wooden forms, rebar, and concrete blocks in the 1968 Cottonwood home-movie footage. — Wood forms, rebar, and concrete blocks frame the ongoing wall work.

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