Arizona-1972: Sunset Over Mountains With Rolling Clouds Changing Colors

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationArizona, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Sunset Over Mountains With Rolling Clouds Changing Colors — Clip Details

ARIZONA-1972: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a dramatic sunset over a mountain range, with clouds rolling across the sky as the light shifts from deep orange to soft blue. Silhouetted trees and distant lights dot the landscape, creating a nostalgic, contemplative mood. The film's natural grain and slight color shifts reflect authentic Super 8 footage from the early 1970s, offering a timeless glimpse of a quiet evening in the American Southwest.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125776364

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: Supports requests for 1970s Arizona home-movie atmosphere, especially documentary inserts needing a Southwest sunset, mountain horizon, or quiet evening transition.
Period detail: The footage may show early 1970s amateur 8mm color stock, with no visible signage, vehicles, fashion, or landmarks to narrow the period beyond the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds on the changing sky from a fixed home-movie viewpoint, valuing the passing light rather than a staged event or performed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a mountain silhouette, layered clouds, orange and blue sunset color, dark trees, a few distant lights, and low foreground structures.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm texture through soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, color shift, and slight gate or scan edge presence.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a contemplative cutaway, time-passing insert, reel transition, or memory beat between Arizona travel or family scenes.
Historical context: The view places a domestic or roadside observer before a broad Southwest evening sky, but the frames do not identify a specific town, landmark, or event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, though copyright, location, and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1972 Arizona 8mm sunset, Super 8 mountain horizon, vintage Southwest sky, home movie clouds, and 1970s evening landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring footage from the same reel, then with 1972 Arizona exterior scenes, then with broader 1970s sunset, mountain, or travel-memory material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Arizona 8mm frame showing a silhouetted mountain range, dark trees, distant lights, and a yellow-orange sky under dense cloud cover. — Mountain silhouettes and scattered lights sit below a darkening orange cloud bank.

1972 Arizona 8mm frame with a bright orange and pale blue sunset behind a mountain horizon, silhouetted trees, and low distant structures. — A bright band of sunset light outlines the mountain ridge and foreground trees.

1972 Arizona 8mm frame showing rolling clouds across a blue-orange evening sky, with mountains, trees, and shadowed foreground below. — Clouds stretch across the cooling sky as the mountain line fades into shadow.

1972 Arizona 8mm frame of a fading sunset over silhouetted mountains, with scattered clouds, tall trees, and a dark foreground. — The final view holds on fading sunset color above the silhouetted mountain range.

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