Arizona-1959: Hotel At Foot Of Mountain

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationArizona, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Hotel At Foot Of Mountain — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a mid-century motel nestled at the base of a rugged mountain range in Arizona. The footage reveals a sprawling, low-rise building with expansive windows and a curved roofline, surrounded by manicured lawns and mature trees. A bicycle rests near the entrance, and the clear blue sky contrasts with the earthy tones of the structure and distant peaks. The handheld camera pans slowly, offering a nostalgic glimpse of 1950s roadside architecture and the American Southwest's 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: 125507074

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1959 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Arizona, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Arizona travel, roadside lodging, or Southwest tourism edits needing a brief exterior motel-at-mountain establishing shot.
Period detail: The low-rise building, broad windows, manicured grounds, and visible bicycle may show mid-century roadside hospitality design in a desert mountain setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, with a slow handheld pan lingering on the lodging, trees, lawn, and mountain backdrop rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a low motel building, large windows, mature trees, clipped lawn, walkway or drive area, bicycle, blue sky, and dark mountain ridge.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, gate edges, and handheld movement that preserve the physical texture of home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an establishing insert, travel transition, location cutaway, or quiet memory beat for mid-century Southwest lodging.
Historical context: The footage places roadside accommodation against Arizona mountain scenery, reflecting leisure travel imagery without identifying the specific business or site.
Research note: No people or logos are evident, but the exterior building and location identity should be reviewed separately from copyright clearance.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 Arizona 8mm motel exterior, mid-century hotel near mountains, Southwest roadside lodging, and vintage travel home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Arizona 1959 travel material, then broader motel, mountain-view, and Southwest road-trip footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Arizona home-movie frame showing a low-rise motel exterior with broad windows, lawn, trees, and blue sky. — A tree partly obscures the motel facade and landscaped grounds.

The motel exterior appears behind trees, with landscaped grounds and an Arizona mountain ridge in the distance. — The pan opens the view toward the building, trees, and distant mountains.

A low motel building sits below the mountains, with a bicycle near the front and trees along the grounds. — A bicycle rests near the front of the motel as the mountain ridge fills the background.

The final frame holds a wider 1959 Arizona view of the motel grounds set against a dark mountain ridge. — The clip ends on a wider view of the motel grounds and mountain backdrop.

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