Cottonwood Arizona-1968: Woman Takes Spatula Off A Freshly Made Wall In A

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

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Woman Takes Spatula Off A Freshly Made Wall In A — Clip Details

A woman in a white short-sleeved shirt works on a concrete block wall in a sunny backyard, using a trowel to spread mortar. Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a moment of DIY construction in Cottonwood, Arizona. The footage shows her focused on the task, with a grassy yard and trees in the background. The warm, slightly faded colors and film grain give it an authentic retro feel, perfect for nostalgic or historical content.

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: 124627853

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: No
Audible music: No

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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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s archival requests needing home-movie footage of a woman doing backyard DIY masonry or small-scale residential construction in Arizona.
Period detail: The clothing, 8mm color stock, cinder block wall, lawn, and sunny yard setting support a late-1960s domestic work scene, consistent with the 1968 Cottonwood metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged moment of a woman handling a trowel and mortar, with the camera observing close to the work rather than staging a formal portrait.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in a white short-sleeved shirt, sunglasses, a trowel or spatula, fresh mortar, concrete blocks, a grassy yard, trees, and backyard equipment.
Film character: The footage has 8mm home-movie texture with visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, slight color fading, and handheld framing around the work area.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a cutaway, memory beat, or brief insert for domestic labor, home improvement, postwar-era yard work, or women doing practical construction tasks.
Historical context: The scene shows informal residential masonry work in a sunny yard, offering visual context for everyday home maintenance and self-directed building activity in the late 1960s.
Research note: A recognizable adult face appears, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are visible, but copyright, location, and any property concerns should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Likely researcher matches include 1968 8mm home movie woman building wall, Cottonwood Arizona backyard construction, vintage DIY masonry, and woman using trowel on concrete blocks.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Cottonwood or Arizona 1968 home movies, then with broader themes of backyard work, DIY building, and domestic labor.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1968 Cottonwood, Arizona home-movie footage, a woman in sunglasses stands near a concrete block wall in a sunny yard. — Woman stands beside the backyard masonry work area.

A cropped view shows an arm reaching above a concrete block wall with fresh mortar and yard equipment behind it. — Arm reaches over the newly mortared block wall.

Fresh mortar is spread along a backyard concrete block wall, with the woman partly visible behind the work surface. — Fresh mortar sits on the top course of the block wall.

In the Cottonwood backyard scene, the woman holds a trowel or spatula while standing near the masonry work area. — Woman holds the masonry tool after working on the wall.

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