Cottonwood Arizona-1968: Dog Drinking From The Sprinkler

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

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Dog Drinking From The Sprinkler — Clip Details

A German Shepherd dog drinks from a sprinkler in a sun-drenched backyard in Cottonwood, Arizona, 1968. Shot on 8mm film, the clip captures the dog panting and moving through the grass as water sprays around it. The scene includes a rusted barrel, a wire fence, and distant hills under a hazy sky. The footage shows natural film grain and slight color fading, characteristic of vintage home movies from the late 1960s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124628830

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 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: Useful for 1960s home-movie requests needing a brief rural Arizona backyard animal cutaway or domestic outdoor life insert.
Period detail: The 8mm frame may show late-1960s backyard details such as a simple sprinkler, wire fencing, a rusted barrel, open grass, and hazy desert hills.
Home-movie behavior: The dog behaves naturally, drinking and moving through the sprinkler as the camera observes from a casual home-movie distance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a German Shepherd-type dog, lawn grass, sprinkler spray, wire fence, rusted barrel, shrubs, distant hills, and dark film-edge borders.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm home-movie texture with visible grain, soft focus, slight color fading, exposure variation, and contact-frame edge artifacts.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a warm animal cutaway, backyard memory beat, transition into domestic summer life, or brief water-and-heat insert.
Historical context: The scene gives visual context for an informal residential yard in Cottonwood, Arizona, with open desert landscape beyond the fence.
Research note: No people, faces, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright and any location or property concerns still require normal review.
Research search match: Searches for 1968 Cottonwood Arizona 8mm dog sprinkler, vintage home movie German Shepherd yard, or 1960s backyard animal footage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel family yard footage, then other 1968 Cottonwood Arizona clips, then broader 1960s pets, sprinklers, and summer backyard scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Cottonwood, Arizona, 1968, a German Shepherd-type dog moves across a sunny lawn while sprinkler water sprays nearby. — The dog crosses the lawn near a low sprinkler with desert hills beyond the fence.

The dog bends toward the sprinkler in the 1968 Cottonwood yard, with a rusted barrel, wire fence, shrubs, and hills behind it. — The dog lowers its muzzle toward the water as the sprinkler sprays across the lawn.

A German Shepherd-type dog stands in the Cottonwood, Arizona yard with its mouth open as sprinkler spray crosses the grass. — The dog pauses beside the spray, mouth open, with fence and low hills in the background.

The dog exits toward the right edge while the sprinkler continues to spray across the 1968 Cottonwood backyard lawn. — The dog moves out of view, leaving the sprinkler stream and yard details in frame.

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