Arizona-1959: Power Plant Transmission Towers On Bright Sunny Day

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationArizona, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Power Plant Transmission Towers On Bright Sunny Day — Clip Details

ARIZONA-1959: A vintage 8mm film clip captures a bright, sunny day at a remote power transmission site in the Arizona desert. The footage shows rugged, rocky terrain with towering metal transmission towers and overhead power lines stretching across the landscape. A stone monument with engraved text appears in the final frames, suggesting a commemorative site. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight camera shake, offering authentic archival footage of mid-century infrastructure development in the American Southwest.

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: 125507382

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

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: Supports 1950s documentary or educational requests for Southwestern utility infrastructure, desert transmission towers, and visitor-shot public works footage.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century electrical transmission equipment, rugged desert access roads, and a commemorative monument consistent with the 1959 Arizona metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld framing and quick move from towers to a monument suggest a visitor documenting a public infrastructure stop rather than staged industrial coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rocky desert hills, metal transmission towers, overhead power lines, a stone retaining wall, a paved road, and a dark commemorative plaque.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, high daylight contrast, and handheld instability that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, infrastructure insert, desert transition, or memory beat around power development in the American Southwest.
Historical context: The footage visually connects desert landscape with electrical transmission structures, but the frames alone do not identify a specific facility or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, though the monument text and any site ownership should be reviewed separately from copyright clearance.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1959 Arizona 8mm power lines, desert transmission towers, mid-century utility infrastructure, and home movie public works footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with Arizona 1959 travel or infrastructure scenes, then with broader mid-century power, desert road, and public works footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Arizona 8mm frame showing a metal transmission tower, overhead power lines, road, and rocky desert hills in bright sun. — Transmission tower and power lines cross rocky desert terrain.

1959 Arizona 8mm frame with angled metal transmission structures, overhead lines, a stone retaining wall, and arid hillside terrain. — Angled transmission structures stand above a stone wall in the desert.

1959 Arizona 8mm frame showing a dark commemorative monument or plaque with engraved text, partly soft and difficult to read. — A dark plaque appears in front of a rocky wall.

1959 Arizona 8mm frame showing a closer view of a dark stone monument plaque with engraved text and a rough wall behind it. — Close view of the commemorative plaque at the site.

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