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California USA-1971: Desert Landscape with Adobe Building and Rocky Mountain

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  • Year1971
  • Decade1970s
  • LocationCalifornia, United States
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1971 · California, United States
  • StatusDirect License

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Desert Landscape with Adobe Building and Rocky Mountain — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched desert landscape in California. A rustic adobe-style building sits beside a sandy yard filled with green shrubs, cacti, and wooden sculptures. A large, rocky mountain looms in the background under a bright blue sky. The footage has a warm, nostalgic color palette and authentic film grain, evoking mid-century Americana. This archival clip offers authentic period footage for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic 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
125224967

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: 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
1971 California 8mm home-movie footage for productions needing a brief desert establishing view with adobe-style architecture and rocky mountains.
Period detail
The clip may show early-1970s leisure travel details through its visitor viewpoint, rustic desert landscaping, adobe-style building edge, and 8mm color home-movie texture.
Home-movie behavior
The camera observes from a casual visitor position across a sandy landscaped yard, valuing place atmosphere rather than staged action.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a rocky mountain slope, desert shrubs, cacti, sandy ground, a dark adobe-style building edge, stone features, and small wooden or sculptural forms.
Film character
The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, slight gate framing, muted color shifts, and handheld instability consistent with amateur travel footage.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, desert transition, location cutaway, or quiet memory beat between travel or California landscape scenes.
Historical context
The view reflects a roadside or visitor-oriented desert setting in California, with built shelter and curated desert plantings set against a dry mountain backdrop.
Research note
No people, faces, or brands are visible, but the adobe-style structure and landscaped grounds may require property-context review separate from copyright clearance.
Research search match
Useful search matches include 1971 California 8mm desert landscape, vintage home movie adobe building, rocky mountain desert yard, and 1970s California travel footage.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1971 California desert material, then broader vintage travel footage showing arid landscapes and rustic buildings.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 California 8mm frame showing a sandy desert yard with shrubs, cactus, small sculptural forms, a building edge, and rocky mountains.

A sandy landscaped desert yard sits below a rocky mountain slope, with shrubs, cactus, stone features, and a shaded building edge.

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1971 California 8mm frame with desert shrubs, cactus, stone landscaping, a dark adobe-style structure edge, and a rocky mountain backdrop.

Desert plantings and stone features fill the foreground while a dark building edge frames the rocky mountain view.

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1971 California 8mm frame looking across a planted desert yard toward a rocky mountain, with cactus, shrubs, and a shaded building side.

The camera looks across a sandy desert garden toward a rocky mountain, with shrubs, cactus, and the building side at right.

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1971 California 8mm frame with soft focus on desert shrubs and cactus in front of a rocky mountain and adobe-style building edge.

Soft-focus 8mm footage frames desert shrubs and cactus against a rocky mountain, with the building edge partly visible at right.

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