New Mexico-1972: Long Road Through White Sand Dunes

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

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Long Road Through White Sand Dunes — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1972 captures a sun-drenched desert road cutting through the iconic white sand dunes of New Mexico. The footage, shot from a moving vehicle, shows a long, straight asphalt road flanked by vast, pristine dunes under a deep blue sky. A diamond-shaped road sign stands on the left, while sparse desert vegetation dots the landscape. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and authentic Super 8 imperfections, evoking a sense of mid-century Americana and road-trip nostalgia. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or retro-themed content.

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: 125776953

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-travel requests needing real 8mm desert driving footage as an establishing insert or archival transition.
Period detail: The paved road, simple roadside sign, vehicle-shot framing, and color 8mm look support a 1972 home-movie context in New Mexico without identifying a specific landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged traveler perspective from a moving vehicle, observing dunes, open road, and roadside vegetation rather than performing for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a straight desert road, white sand dunes, a diamond-shaped road sign, blue sky, distant low mountains, scrub plants, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, soft focus, mild color fading, gate weave, and contact-sheet frame edges that contribute period texture for archival use.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a road-trip insert, geographic transition, travel memory beat, or cutaway between broader New Mexico or desert-sequence material.
Historical context: The view reflects leisure or travel documentation through a white-sand desert landscape, with no visible people, vehicles, buildings, or commercial signage in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in these frames, but users should still review copyright status and any location-specific permitting needs separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1972 8mm New Mexico desert road footage, white sand dunes home movie, vintage Southwest driving shot, and archival road-trip landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with New Mexico 1972 material, then with broader desert-road, white-dune, or American road-trip footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 8mm New Mexico road view with white sand dunes, a roadside sign, distant hills, and sparse desert vegetation. — A paved road runs through white sand dunes with a diamond-shaped sign at the left shoulder.

Vehicle-shot 8mm frame of a New Mexico road bordered by pale dunes, low mountains, and a small roadside sign. — The road continues through bright dunes toward low mountains on the horizon.

1972 8mm travel frame showing a long New Mexico desert road, white sand banks, blue sky, and distant hills. — A long, open road stretches between pale dune banks in a sunlit desert landscape.

Close roadside view of New Mexico white sand dunes with scrub vegetation, grasses, and soft 8mm color. — Desert plants and grasses grow across a white sand dune near the roadside.

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