Cottonwood Arizona-1968: Man Digging Ditches In Scorching Summer Heat

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

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Man Digging Ditches In Scorching Summer Heat — Clip Details

A man in a light-colored short-sleeve shirt and dark pants works in a dry, sun-scorched field in Cottonwood, Arizona, 1968. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures him walking through tall, dry grass, using a shovel to dig or clear the land. He shields his eyes from the intense sun, highlighting the heat of the summer day. In the background, a sparse suburban landscape with low houses and distant mountains is visible under a hazy sky. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 home movie evokes a strong sense of mid-1960s Americana and rural life.

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: 124629323

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

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 requests needing 1960s Arizona home-movie footage of outdoor manual labor, rural-suburban land work, or summer heat as a documentary insert.
Period detail: The light shirt, simple work clothes, dry field, low buildings, utility poles, and distant hills may show a late-1960s Cottonwood, Arizona edge-of-town setting.
Home-movie behavior: The man moves through the grass with a shovel and briefly shields his face, giving the scene an unstaged record of physical work in strong sun.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in a light short-sleeve shirt, a shovel, tall dry grass, bare soil, low houses, utility poles, distant hills, and hazy sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, faded color, visible grain, gate edges, and handheld framing that preserve the texture of a family-shot home movie.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, labor insert, heat beat, or transition into rural Arizona, land clearing, or everyday work sequences.
Historical context: The footage shows a dry open field beside modest development, suggesting everyday land work near a growing small-town landscape without proving ownership or purpose.
Research note: A recognizable adult face appears, so likeness review may be needed separately from copyright, with no visible brands or audible music indicated in the metadata.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1968 Cottonwood Arizona 8mm footage, man digging with shovel, dry summer field, rural labor, home movie, and midcentury Arizona outskirts.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Cottonwood 1968 material, then broader Arizona rural labor, summer heat, or land-clearing scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Cottonwood, Arizona, 1968, a man stands in a dry field holding a shovel, with low buildings and distant hills in the background. — A man with a shovel pauses in a dry field under hazy sun.

A man walks through tall dry grass in Cottonwood, Arizona, with a shovel and low suburban buildings visible beyond the field. — The man crosses the dry grass with a shovel as houses sit in the distance.

The man appears to work or reposition a shovel in the dry grass, with Cottonwood-area houses and utility poles in the distance. — A brief work moment in the field shows the man lowering his arm near the shovel.

A man stands by a patch of disturbed soil in a dry Cottonwood field, with a shovel and sparse suburban background visible. — The man stands near freshly disturbed dirt in the dry field.

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