New Mexico-1972: Empty Land And Mountain

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

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Empty Land And Mountain — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1972, this vintage home movie captures a vast, arid landscape in New Mexico. The footage shows an expansive, empty plain with rolling hills under a hazy purple sky, viewed from a high vantage point. The foreground features dry grass and a dirt path, while the distant terrain stretches to the horizon. The final frame shifts to a mounted animal hide on a branch, suggesting a hunting or outdoor lifestyle. The film exhibits natural grain and color fading typical of Super 8 home movies from the era.

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: 125777471

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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s 8mm home-movie footage suited to documentary or educational requests for an arid New Mexico landscape, open land, and rural travel atmosphere.
Period detail: The clip may show a 1972 visitor-shot view of dry New Mexico terrain, with period clues limited to the 8mm color stock, handheld framing, and faded home-movie palette.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the unstaged feel of a traveler pausing at a high overlook, briefly recording the empty plain before turning to a mounted animal-hide display.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dry grass, a dirt path, rolling hills, pale open ground, a hazy sky, dark film-frame edges, and a mounted animal hide on a branch.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, mild exposure variation, and contact-sheet frame edges.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, landscape transition, rural travel cutaway, or quiet memory beat between broader Southwest or outdoor-lifestyle scenes.
Historical context: The imagery reflects a private home-movie view of open arid land and a rustic animal-hide display, without visible people, signage, buildings, or identifiable events.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright status, location precision, and any property or cultural sensitivities should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1970s New Mexico 8mm landscape, arid open plain home movie, Southwest desert hills, empty rural land, and mounted animal hide detail.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1972 New Mexico landscape footage, then with broader Southwest, rural travel, or hunting-lifestyle cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 8mm home-movie frame of an arid New Mexico overlook with dry grass, a faint path, pale hills, and a broad hazy horizon. — High vantage view across dry grass, a dirt path, and open rolling land under a hazy sky.

1972 New Mexico home-movie view across an empty arid plain, with scrubby foreground grass, low hills, and faded 8mm color. — Empty landscape stretches from scrubby foreground grass to low hills and a hazy horizon.

1972 8mm frame of a New Mexico arid overlook, showing dry foreground vegetation, a narrow path, pale hills, and distant flat land. — A narrow dirt path cuts through dry foreground grass toward pale hills and open distance.

1972 8mm home-movie frame showing a mounted animal hide or pelt on a branch-like support against a pale wall, possibly a rustic display. — Mounted animal hide or pelt displayed on a branch-like support against a pale wall.

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