Arizona USA-1968: Boaters Enjoying The Lake While Surrounded By Mountains

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

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Boaters Enjoying The Lake While Surrounded By Mountains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a serene lake scene in Arizona. The footage shows a wide expanse of deep blue water with small boats scattered across the surface, moving slowly against a backdrop of rugged, arid mountains under a clear blue sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color shifts, with a distinct purple-blue tint typical of 1960s home movies. The camera remains steady, offering a peaceful, nostalgic view of a summer day spent on the water, evoking a sense of quiet leisure and natural beauty.

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: 124744099

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: 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 archival requests needing Arizona lake recreation, boating cutaways, or quiet landscape inserts from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The scene may show mid-century leisure travel through 8mm color stock, small motorboats, and a sparse desert mountain shoreline.
Home-movie behavior: The value is the visitor-shot stillness of observing boats from shore or another boat, with no staged action or directed subjects visible.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include deep blue lake water, distant small boats, arid mountain ridges, pale shoreline, clear sky, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The footage carries visible grain, soft focus, purple-blue color shift, slight exposure variation, and steady home-movie framing.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a landscape cutaway, travel transition, vacation memory beat, or establishing insert for boating in a desert lake setting.
Historical context: The clip reflects leisure use of a desert reservoir landscape, showing boats spread across open water beneath rugged mountains.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still assess copyright status and any location-related permissions for their use.
Research search match: Searches such as 1968 Arizona lake boating 8mm, desert mountain reservoir home movie, and vintage boats on blue water may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Arizona 1968 lake or mountain views, then broader vintage boating and desert recreation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Arizona home-movie view of blue lake water, distant mountain ridges, and a tiny boat near the pale shore. — Wide lake view with a small boat against distant desert mountains.

1968 Arizona lake scene with small distant boats crossing blue water below rugged mountain slopes. — Small boats move across open water beneath rugged mountains.

Vintage 8mm view of an Arizona lake, with small boats spread across blue water below arid mountain terrain. — Distant boats dot the lake below an arid mountain backdrop.

1968 Arizona home-movie frame showing blue water, tiny boats, a pale desert shoreline, and rugged mountains. — Blue water fills the foreground with boats and mountains in the distance.

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