Cottonwood Arizona-1968: Mason Laying Cement in Wooden Forms

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

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Mason Laying Cement in Wooden Forms — Clip Details

A man in a white work shirt carefully lays brown masonry cement into wooden molds during a construction project in Cottonwood, Arizona, 1968. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures close-up details of hands working with rebar and wooden forms, showcasing a hands-on building process. The warm, slightly faded color palette and visible film grain evoke a nostalgic, authentic mid-20th century home movie feel. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse into everyday construction techniques from the late 1960s.

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: 124627820

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s archival requests needing close-up construction craft, masonry work, or hands-on building-process inserts from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The white work shirt, wooden forms, rebar, and 8mm color texture may show small-scale construction practice in Cottonwood, Arizona, in 1968.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged close working view, concentrating on the mason's hands and materials rather than a posed construction scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in a white shirt, wooden mold forms, brown cement, rebar, a hand tool, grass, and sunlit outdoor work surfaces.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm home-movie grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and slight color fade that help place it as physical-film documentation.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a close-up cutaway, process insert, or tactile memory beat within sequences about building, labor, craft, or 1960s home projects.
Historical context: The scene documents practical manual construction activity, showing hands, forms, and reinforcing material without broader claims about the site or project.
Research note: A person is visible, with limited facial detail, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are visible, and copyright clearance is separate from likeness or property review.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1968 Arizona 8mm masonry footage, vintage cement work, wooden forms, rebar construction, and home-movie building close-ups.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel construction shots, then Cottonwood or Arizona 1968 material, then broader 1960s masonry, craft, labor, and building-process footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Close 1968 Cottonwood, Arizona view of a man in a white work shirt leaning over wooden forms during masonry work. — A man works close to wooden mold forms during an outdoor construction task.

Wooden mold forms, rebar, and a worker's sleeve are seen in a close construction view from Cottonwood, Arizona, 1968. — Rebar and wooden forms fill the frame as the masonry work continues.

A close 8mm view shows hands working beside wooden forms, rebar, and a tool during a 1968 Arizona construction project. — Hands move around the wooden mold forms with rebar and tools nearby.

A worker's hand uses a small tool beside wooden forms and rebar in close-up 1968 Cottonwood masonry footage. — The mason's hand works with a tool beside the wooden form and reinforcing bars.

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