Arizona-1972: Vibrant Desert Sunset Over Mountain Silhouettes

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationArizona, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Vibrant Desert Sunset Over Mountain Silhouettes — Clip Details

ARIZONA-1972: A stunning 8mm home movie captures a vibrant desert sunset over the Arizona mountains. The sky glows with rich oranges and yellows, transitioning into deep purples above silhouetted peaks and scattered pine trees. Power lines and utility poles are visible in the foreground, adding a touch of mid-century Americana. The footage shows natural film grain and slight imperfections, characteristic of vintage Super 8 home movies from the early 1970s. This atmospheric clip evokes nostalgia and the quiet beauty of a southwestern evening.

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: 125776370

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 or Southwest archive requests needing a brief atmospheric sunset insert, transition, or establishing cutaway without visible people.
Period detail: The silhouetted utility poles, power lines, and 8mm color home-movie texture may show a residential or roadside Arizona view from the early 1970s.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged home-movie perspective, holding on a changing desert sky rather than documenting a formal event or posed subject.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include orange sunset glow, mountain silhouettes, scattered clouds, dark tree shapes, utility poles, power lines, and film-frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows warm color shift, visible grain, soft exposure, gate shadows, and small dust marks that read as physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet transition, closing beat, time-of-day insert, or memory cutaway for a Southwest or 1970s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually places everyday infrastructure against a desert mountain sunset, suggesting a domestic or travel vantage point rather than a named landmark.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are evident, but copyright and any location or property considerations should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Arizona 1972 8mm sunset, 1970s desert mountains home movie, Southwest utility poles at dusk, vintage color film sky cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Arizona material, then other 1972 Arizona exterior scenes, then broader Southwest sunset or mountain silhouette footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Arizona 8mm frame showing a glowing desert sunset behind silhouetted mountains, trees, poles, and power lines. — Sunset color spreads behind dark Arizona mountain silhouettes and foreground utility lines.

1972 Arizona 8mm frame with orange-yellow dusk light under clouds, dark mountain ridges, and visible utility poles. — Dusk sky glows above a dark mountain horizon with utility poles near the lower edge.

1972 Arizona 8mm frame showing a broad sunset cloud band over silhouetted desert mountains and faint utility lines. — A broad band of cloud and warm light sits over a dark mountain silhouette.

1972 Arizona 8mm frame with fading orange dusk light, cloud texture, mountain silhouettes, and small utility poles. — The sunset dims over mountain silhouettes as clouds stretch across the evening sky.

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