Arizona-1972: The Side Of A Dam Featuring Boulders Trees Shrubs A Walkway And A

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationArizona, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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The Side Of A Dam Featuring Boulders Trees Shrubs A... — Clip Details

ARIZONA-1972: A vintage 8mm home movie clip captures a sun-drenched dam with a concrete spillway and metal railing, overlooking calm blue water. Lush green palm trees and shrubs grow against a rugged rock face, with a stone retaining wall above. A white car passes in the background, and the footage shows natural film grain and color saturation typical of 1970s home movies. The scene evokes classic Americana and mid-century infrastructure, ideal for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125775742

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s Arizona 8mm dam footage suited for documentary cutaways about infrastructure, water, travel, energy, or home-movie views of the American Southwest.
Period detail: The 1972 home-movie date is supported by metadata, while the visible clues are period film color, a roadside car, metal railings, concrete dam work, and landscaped palms.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, observing the dam, railings, rocks, water, and landscaping from nearby rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a concrete spillway, blue water, metal handrails, rock faces, a stone retaining wall, palm trees, shrubs, and a distant white car.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows saturated color, visible grain, slight softness, handheld framing, and high desert sunlight typical of amateur 1970s home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, infrastructure cutaway, travel transition, or memory beat between broader Arizona or water-management sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually places recreational sightseeing beside managed water infrastructure, with landscaping and masonry set against rugged Arizona rock terrain.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but users should still review copyright, location access, and property-context questions for their use.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1972 Arizona 8mm dam, vintage home movie spillway, Super 8 Southwest reservoir, concrete dam railing, and retro hydroelectric cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Arizona 1972 footage, then related dam, reservoir, roadway, desert landscape, or energy-infrastructure clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Arizona 8mm frame showing palms, shrubs, rock face, stone retaining wall, and a railed walkway beside a dam. — Landscaping and rock wall beside the dam, seen from a visitor viewpoint.

1972 Arizona home-movie frame with palm landscaping, boulders, stone wall, and a railing along the dam area. — A railed walkway passes landscaped palms and shrubs at the rocky side of the dam.

1972 Arizona 8mm view of palms and shrubs below a rugged rock face, with a railed sloped walkway at the dam. — Palm trees and shrubs fill the foreground below the stone and rock retaining wall.

1972 Arizona frame showing the dam's concrete side, metal guardrails, rocky bank, and calm blue reservoir water. — The dam's concrete spillway and railing run along the edge of still blue water.

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