Arizona-1972: Wood Signages In Cemetery

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationArizona, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Wood Signages In Cemetery — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1972, this vintage home movie captures a humorous and macabre roadside memorial in Arizona. The clip shows a white wooden sign shaped like a gravestone, with hand-painted text reading 'HERE LIES LESTER MOORE FOUR SLUGS FROM A-44 NO LES NO MORE' and another sign listing names including Dan Dowd and Red Sample with 'LEGALLY HANGED' below. The signs stand in a desert landscape with sparse green shrubs and distant mountains under a pale sky, showcasing the characteristic grain and color saturation of Super 8 film. This archival footage offers a quirky slice of Americana and roadside history.

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: 125776177

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: Useful for 1970s Arizona roadside Americana requests needing a brief cemetery-sign cutaway for documentary, education, or editorial sequences.
Period detail: The white hand-painted wooden markers, desert shrubs, distant mountains, and 8mm color rendering may show a 1972 visitor stop at a staged Old West-style memorial display in Arizona.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, pausing on novelty gravestone signs as a travel memory rather than a formal survey of the site.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include white grave-marker signs, black hand-lettered names, desert brush, pale rocky ground, distant mountains, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm image carries visible grain, slight exposure variation, soft focus, and contact-sheet frame edges that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, macabre travel cutaway, Arizona transition, or offbeat memory beat in a 1970s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The signs present a humorous Old West death-and-punishment theme within a desert roadside setting, but the frames do not verify a specific cemetery name or attraction.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should review copyright in the footage and any property or display permissions separately.
Research search match: Search matches include 1972 Arizona 8mm roadside cemetery sign, vintage home movie gravestone marker, and Old West novelty memorial footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1972 Arizona travel scenes, then broader roadside attraction or cemetery-sign material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Arizona 8mm frame of a white wooden marker reading Here Lies Lester Moore, set against shrubs and distant mountains. — A hand-painted white marker with macabre text stands in a desert landscape.

1972 Arizona travel footage shows the Lester Moore novelty grave marker with brush and mountains behind it. — The Lester Moore marker is framed closer, with its painted epitaph visible.

A 1972 Arizona 8mm frame shows a white marker listing Dan Dowd, Red Sample, Tex Howard, Bill Delaney, and Dan Kelly above Legally Hanged. — A second hand-painted marker lists several names and the phrase Legally Hanged.

Close 1972 Arizona frame of the hand-painted Legally Hanged marker, surrounded by dry brush and pale stones. — The camera holds on the names and Legally Hanged wording on the white marker.

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