Arizona-1972: Black Car Travels Down Near Empty Road On A Sunny Day

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationArizona, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Black Car Travels Down Near Empty Road On A Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1972, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched desert landscape in Arizona. A black car travels along a near-empty road, passing a roadside motel or commercial complex with low buildings and scattered trees. The scene features a vast, flat expanse under a bright blue sky, with distant mountains and a large body of water visible. The footage exhibits classic 8mm film grain and color saturation, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-1970s American roadside travel.

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: 125775692

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: 1972 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports requests for 1970s Arizona travel footage, desert roadside establishing shots, or editorial cutaways of a car passing through a sparse Southwestern landscape.
Period detail: The scene may show early 1970s roadside development, with low commercial buildings, open desert lots, scattered trees, and a car on a lightly traveled road.
Home-movie behavior: The viewpoint feels like a traveler filming from a fixed elevated position, preserving an unstaged glimpse of road movement across a broad desert view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a black car, empty roadway, low buildings, scattered trees, a broad body of water, distant mountains, and a bright blue sky.
Film character: The 8mm image has saturated blue skies, soft distant detail, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-frame borders that emphasize its physical home-movie origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel insert, Southwestern transition, roadside cutaway, or quiet memory beat between more specific family or route scenes.
Historical context: The footage places automobile travel within a wide desert setting where roads, small commercial structures, water, and mountains share the same open horizon.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are apparent, but copyright, location identification, vehicle/property context, and any underlying private property concerns still require review.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1972 Arizona home movie road, 8mm desert highway car, vintage Southwestern travel footage, or lake and mountains roadside view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1972 Arizona scenes, then broader vintage desert road travel, roadside motel, water, and mountain landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Arizona 8mm frame showing a sparse roadside area with trees, low buildings, water, and mountains beyond a road where a dark car is partly visible. — A broad desert roadside view with low buildings, scattered trees, water, and mountains in the distance.

1972 Arizona home-movie frame of a near-empty road below low roadside buildings, desert ground, scattered trees, water, and distant mountains. — A near-empty roadside scene looks across desert lots toward water and a mountain horizon.

1972 Arizona 8mm frame with a wider roadside view, showing cars along the lower road, open desert ground, low buildings, water, and mountains. — The view widens to include more road, several trees, low structures, and the waterline beyond.

1972 Arizona frame showing a dark car traveling along a road beneath an open desert view with trees, low buildings, water, and distant mountains. — A dark car passes through the lower road as the desert landscape opens toward water and mountains.

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