Arizona-1972: Amazing Sunset In The City Then Amazing Shots Of The Mountains

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationArizona, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Amazing Sunset In The City Then Amazing Shots Of The... — Clip Details

ARIZONA-1972: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a dramatic sunset over a mountainous landscape, with warm orange and yellow light glowing behind silhouetted peaks. The scene transitions to a darkening sky where a bird flies across the frame, its silhouette visible against the fading light. Distant city lights twinkle along the horizon, creating a striking contrast between natural wilderness and urban development. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and soft focus, with a natural, unscripted feel typical of personal travel recordings from the early 1970s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125776354

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$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: 1972 Arizona 8mm travel footage suited for documentary requests needing mountain scenery, desert dusk, or city-edge landscape inserts.
Period detail: The frames may show early 1970s visitor-shot Arizona scenery, with natural rock formations, trees, silhouetted peaks, utility poles, and distant city lights.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged travel-film viewpoint, lingering on scenic mountains and a darkening skyline rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include sunlit rock cliffs, evergreen branches, a dark vertical film-frame divider, orange dusk clouds, mountain silhouettes, utility poles, and small city lights.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, warm exposure shifts, and contact-sheet frame edges that support its physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short scenic cutaway, regional establishing insert, or transition from daytime mountain travel to evening city atmosphere.
Historical context: The footage places Arizona mountain scenery beside a distant urban horizon, suggesting a visual contrast between desert landscape and settled city edge without identifying a specific site.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property considerations should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1970s Arizona 8mm mountains, vintage home movie sunset city lights, desert skyline at dusk, and Super 8 travel landscape footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with other 1972 Arizona travel scenes, and then with broader vintage mountain, desert sunset, or city-at-dusk footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Arizona 8mm frame showing pale rock formations, trees, and dark vertical frame edges in a scenic mountain view. — Rocky Arizona mountain scenery framed by trees and visible film borders.

1972 Arizona 8mm frame with sunlit rock formations, wooded slopes, and a dark vertical divider from the film scan. — Sunlit rock formations and trees appear behind a dark film-frame divider.

1972 Arizona 8mm frame showing an orange sunset sky, silhouetted mountains, small city lights, and utility poles on the horizon. — Distant city lights and utility poles sit below an orange dusk sky and mountain silhouettes.

1972 Arizona 8mm frame of a darkening skyline with silhouetted peaks, distant lights, utility poles, and heavy sunset clouds. — A dark skyline with distant lights appears beneath layered orange sunset clouds.

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