California USA-1971: Mountains In Background Of Desert With Dead Trees And Cacti

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Year1971
Decade1970s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1971 California

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Mountains In Background Of Desert With Dead Trees And Cacti — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a desolate desert landscape in California. The scene features a vast, arid plain with scattered saguaro cacti and leafless, dead trees in the foreground. In the distance, a range of purple-hued mountains rises against a pale, overcast sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slight color fading, and natural camera movement, conveying a quiet, melancholic atmosphere of abandonment and timelessness in the American Southwest.

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: 125064471

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 1758 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: III-02,sacto state
Reel-level year note: 1971
Reel-level location note: california,sacramento
Date: 1971 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: California, 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 1970s archival requests needing an 8mm desert landscape cutaway from California for documentary, museum, education, or period atmosphere use.
Period detail: The clip may show a 1971 home-movie view of an arid California desert, with sparse cacti, dead trees, distant mountains, and no visible modern development.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the quiet, observational feel of a traveler pausing on a desert roadside or open plain to record the landscape without staging.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pale desert ground, scrub vegetation, tall cacti, leafless trees, blue-purple mountains, hazy sky, and soft horizon lines.
Film character: The 8mm image carries visible grain, muted color, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing typical of scanned physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, transitional landscape beat, desert travel cutaway, or reflective pause between archive sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents a sparsely developed desert environment as seen through a 1971 amateur camera, without identifiable people, structures, vehicles, or signage.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any location-specific use concerns.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1971 California desert 8mm footage, vintage home movie mountains, arid landscape cutaway, cacti, dead trees, and American Southwest scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then California 1971 travel footage, then broader 1970s desert, mountain, roadside, and nature cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 California desert view with sparse scrub, leafless trees, tall cacti, and hazy mountains in the distance. — Sparse desert vegetation and dead trees stand before a blue-purple mountain range.

Muted 8mm frame of a California desert plain with scattered cacti, dead trees, and a purple mountain ridge beyond. — Cacti and bare trees break up the desert foreground below a distant ridge.

1971 California desert landscape showing a sandy foreground, scrub vegetation, tall cacti, and broad blue mountains. — A sandy desert foreground leads toward scrub and broad mountains in the haze.

Soft 8mm view of a California desert plain with thin cacti, low brush, haze, and faint distant mountains. — Thin cacti and low brush sit against a hazy desert horizon with faint mountains.

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