New Mexico-1972: Desert Landscape with Mountains and Utility Poles

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationNew, Mexico
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1972 New Mexico

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Desert Landscape with Mountains and Utility Poles — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1972, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping desert landscape in New Mexico. The view, framed by a vehicle window, reveals arid hills, distant mountains, and scattered utility poles under a pale blue sky. A small white object, possibly a kite or bird, briefly appears in the sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and natural film imperfections, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of a road trip through the American Southwest.

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: 125776867

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: New, Mexico 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 road-trip inserts, documentary transitions, or regional landscape context without identifiable people.
Period detail: The 1972 metadata is supported, while the visible road, utility poles, arid terrain, and film color suggest a period home-movie travel view.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged passenger-window viewpoint, scanning the desert road and mountains as a traveler records the passing landscape.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include desert scrub, dirt road, utility poles, distant mountains, pale sky, roadside posts, and film-frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, color fading, exposure variation, gate edges, and dust marks as part of its archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, regional cutaway, or memory beat for a Southwest journey.
Historical context: The footage may show rural New Mexico infrastructure and open desert travel scenery in the early 1970s, without visible people or vehicles.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location, land access, and any property concerns should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1972 New Mexico desert 8mm footage, Southwest road trip home movie, utility poles mountains, and vintage arid landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then New Mexico 1972 travel footage, then broader Southwest desert road-trip material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 New Mexico desert landscape with mountains, scrub, pale sky, and dark 8mm frame edges. — Desert terrain and mountains appear through the edge of the film frame.

New Mexico desert road with utility poles, scrubland, distant mountains, and a pale blue sky in 1972 8mm footage. — A dirt road curves past utility poles toward distant mountains.

Passenger-window view of a desert road with utility poles, scrub vegetation, and distant mountain silhouettes in New Mexico. — Utility poles line a rough desert road across open scrubland.

1972 New Mexico desert view with a dirt road, utility poles, roadside scrub, and hazy mountains in the distance. — A desert road and utility poles recede toward a mountain horizon.

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