Arizona-1972: Old Tombstones In High Desert Brush Surrounded By Mountain Range

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationArizona, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Old Tombstones In High Desert Brush Surrounded By... — Clip Details

ARIZONA-1972: A wide shot captures a high desert landscape dotted with simple white tombstones amidst sparse brush, with a mountain range in the distance. A person in light clothing walks through the arid terrain. The scene shifts to a close-up of a humorous tombstone reading 'HERE LIES LESTER MOORE FOUR SLUGS FROM A-44 NO LES NO MORE,' a quirky memorial in the Arizona desert. Shot on 8mm film, this vintage home movie footage offers a nostalgic glimpse of a unique roadside landmark with authentic film grain and color.

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: 125776172

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 footage helps source a brief documentary or editorial cutaway of a desert cemetery or roadside Old West grave marker.
Period detail: The simple white markers, arid brush, distant mountains, and handheld color 8mm texture support an early 1970s home-movie view of an Arizona high desert landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The camera moves from a visitor's wide look across scattered graves to a closer reading of a humorous tombstone, preserving an unstaged tourist perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include desert brush, white tombstones, a distant mountain range, a small walking visitor, blue sky, and a close grave marker with hand-painted lettering.
Film character: The scan carries soft 8mm grain, slight exposure variation, gate edges, handheld framing, and muted color that read as original home-movie film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an insert, transition, or memory beat for desert travel, roadside Americana, cemetery detail, or Old West folklore themes.
Historical context: The clip shows how a home-movie traveler recorded a remote Arizona graveyard setting, focusing on landscape scale before isolating a comic epitaph marker.
Research note: A distant person is visible and the tombstone text may identify a named figure, so likeness, privacy, location, and inscription context should be reviewed separately from copyright.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1970s Arizona 8mm desert cemetery, old tombstones in high desert brush, humorous grave marker, and vintage home movie roadside landmark.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Arizona 1972 travel views, then broader 1970s desert landmarks, cemeteries, and roadside Americana.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Arizona 8mm frame showing a high desert cemetery with scattered white tombstones, scrub brush, mountains, and a small visitor walking through the scene. — Wide view of scattered desert tombstones with mountains beyond and a visitor crossing the brush.

1972 Arizona 8mm close view of a white tombstone reading HERE LIES above a humorous epitaph, with desert shrubs and mountains in the background. — Close-up of a white grave marker with a comic epitaph set against brush and distant mountains.

1972 Arizona 8mm frame of the tall white grave marker centered in the shot, with its epitaph partly blurred by motion and desert mountains behind it. — The camera holds on the white marker as the painted epitaph fills the frame.

1972 Arizona 8mm frame showing the grave marker more clearly, including HERE LIES and lines of the Lester Moore epitaph against desert brush and mountains. — Final close view of the humorous grave marker with high desert vegetation behind it.

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