Arizona-1972: Silhouetted Trees and Power Lines During Sunset

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationArizona, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Silhouetted Trees and Power Lines During Sunset — Clip Details

ARIZONA-1972: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a dramatic sunset over a desert landscape. Silhouetted bare trees and utility poles stand against a vibrant sky of orange, yellow, and purple hues. The camera pans slowly across the scene, revealing distant mountains and power lines, evoking a quiet, nostalgic atmosphere of a 1970s American Southwest evening. The footage shows natural film grain and warm color saturation typical of Super 8 film.

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: 125776208

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 American Southwest documentary edits needing a brief atmospheric sunset cutaway from original 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frame may show early 1970s Arizona utility poles, overhead lines, low rooftops or structures, bare trees, and a desert mountain horizon at sunset.
Home-movie behavior: The slow pan and unpeopled view suggest a home-movie maker pausing to record evening light and local landscape rather than a staged scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include silhouetted trees, wooden utility poles, power lines, distant mountains, low rooftops or structures, and orange-purple sunset clouds.
Film character: The clip carries warm 8mm color saturation, visible grain, soft focus, high-contrast silhouettes, and slight handheld movement typical of scanned small-gauge film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet transition, memory beat, establishing insert, or end-of-day cutaway for a Southwest or 1970s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The footage places ordinary utility infrastructure and desert-edge settlement against a sunset sky, giving context for everyday Arizona surroundings in the 1970s.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property-context concerns should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Researchers may find this through searches for 1972 Arizona 8mm sunset, desert power lines, silhouetted trees, Southwest home movie, or vintage utility poles.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Arizona 1972 material, then broader 1970s desert sunsets, power lines, and home-movie landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Arizona 8mm frame showing a bare tree, utility pole, power lines, and dark mountain horizon at sunset. — Bare branches and a utility pole stand in silhouette against a warm sunset sky.

1972 Arizona 8mm frame with silhouetted branches and a utility pole crossing a gold-orange desert sunset. — A utility pole and bare branches cut across the sunset, with power lines running through the frame.

1972 Arizona 8mm frame showing utility poles, a bare tree, low structures, and a mountain horizon beneath sunset clouds. — Utility poles and low structures appear beneath layered clouds and a glowing horizon.

1972 Arizona 8mm frame with distant mountains, utility poles, overhead wires, and a warm sunset sky. — The pan settles on power lines and utility poles silhouetted before distant mountains at sunset.

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