Scottsdale Arizona-1968: The Swim Club In Mountain Shadows Resort

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

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The Swim Club In Mountain Shadows Resort — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched poolside scene at a resort in Scottsdale, Arizona. Lush palm trees frame the turquoise swimming pool, where a diving board stands ready. Guests relax on lounge chairs under the bright desert sun, with a sign for 'Mountain Shadows' visible in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color saturation, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American vacation atmosphere.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 125294052

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: Yes
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: Scottsdale, 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 documentary or editorial requests needing resort poolside leisure footage from Scottsdale, Arizona, in a visitor-shot home-movie style.
Period detail: The scene shows mid-century resort leisure cues including palm landscaping, a turquoise pool, lounge chairs, a diving board, and a visible Mountain Shadows sign.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the pool area from behind palms, capturing an unstaged vacation perspective with guests moving or relaxing in the background.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include palm trunks and fronds, a swimming pool, concrete deck, diving board, lounge chairs, landscaping, and a Mountain Shadows sign.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, saturated pool color, uneven exposure, frame-edge darkness, and handheld framing typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short resort-life insert, a vacation memory beat, or a warm establishing cutaway for 1960s Arizona leisure.
Historical context: The clip reflects a sunlit resort pool environment and may support stories about mid-century American travel, recreation, and desert leisure culture.
Research note: People and a visible resort sign may require likeness, trademark, location, or property review separate from any copyright assessment.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1968 Scottsdale resort pool, Mountain Shadows swim club, 8mm Arizona vacation footage, and 1960s hotel pool home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Scottsdale or 1968 resort material, then broader 1960s swimming pool and vacation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Scottsdale resort pool scene framed by palm trees, with a turquoise pool, diving board, and Mountain Shadows sign visible. — Palm trees frame the pool deck and diving board at Mountain Shadows.

Scottsdale resort pool viewed through palm fronds, showing the diving board, deck, and Mountain Shadows sign in bright sun. — The camera looks past palm fronds toward the pool and resort sign.

1968 home-movie view of a Scottsdale resort pool, with a palm trunk foreground, turquoise water, lounge chairs, and a distant diving board. — A foreground palm trunk partially obscures the poolside view.

Scottsdale resort pool scene with palms, a diving board, Mountain Shadows sign, and small figures moving near the pool deck. — People pass near the edge of the palm-framed resort pool.

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