Arizona-1972: Silhouetted Trees And Power Lines At Desert Sunset

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationArizona, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Silhouetted Trees And Power Lines At Desert Sunset — Clip Details

ARIZONA-1972: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a dramatic desert sunset, beginning with a warm, hazy sky of orange and yellow tones. As the clip progresses, the sun dips below the horizon, casting long shadows and silhouetting bare trees and utility poles against the glowing sky. The film shows natural grain and slight imperfections, characteristic of 8mm home movie footage from the early 1970s. The scene evokes a quiet, nostalgic atmosphere of a rural Arizona evening, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 125776199

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: This clip supports requests for 1970s Arizona home-movie sunset footage for documentary transitions, rural landscape context, or reflective editorial inserts.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, soft exposure shifts, utility pole silhouettes, and bare roadside trees are consistent with early 1970s home-movie material in Arizona.
Home-movie behavior: The framing feels like an unstaged observation of evening light from a fixed or lightly handheld vantage, preserving a brief personal view of a desert sunset.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include orange sky, low sun glow, dark tree branches, utility poles, overhead power lines, distant horizon shapes, film gate edges, and dust marks.
Film character: The footage has warm color bias, visible grain, slight softness, frame-edge shadows, and small dust or hair marks that read as physical 8mm archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quiet transition, sunset cutaway, end-of-day insert, or memory beat between scenes set in the American Southwest.
Historical context: The scene records a roadside or residential-adjacent desert view where utility infrastructure and bare trees interrupt the evening sky without showing people.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright status and any location or property implications should still be checked before use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1970s Arizona 8mm sunset, Super 8 desert power lines, vintage home movie evening sky, and silhouetted trees at dusk.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1972 Arizona material, then broader vintage desert sunset or utility-line landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Arizona 8mm frame showing a hazy orange sunset sky, dark film-edge shadows, and a low yellow glow near the horizon. — Hazy orange sky and low sunset glow framed by dark film-edge shadows.

1972 Arizona 8mm frame with warm orange cloud bands, small film marks, and dark vertical shadows at the edges of the frame. — Warm sunset clouds and film texture before the silhouetted landscape appears.

1972 Arizona 8mm frame showing silhouetted bare trees, a utility pole, overhead lines, and a bright sunset glow along the horizon. — Bare trees and utility lines silhouetted against a glowing desert sunset.

1972 Arizona 8mm frame with tree branches, utility hardware, power lines, and a low golden sunset glow near the horizon. — Utility pole and tree silhouettes stand against the late-evening sky.

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