Zion National Park Utah-1968: Prickly Pear Cactus and Conifer Below a Sheer Red Sandstone Cliff

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Year1968
Decade1960s
LocationZion National Park, Utah, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1968 · Zion National Park, Utah, United States

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What is in this clip

desert landscape
canyon country
desert flora
national park travel
family road trip
American Southwest
natural scenery

Shot type: wide
Camera: static · low angle, looking slightly up
Setting: outdoor · desert canyon floor with cactus and shrubs below sandstone cliffs
Time and weather: daytime · clear
Lighting: direct sunlight, warm on the rock face
People: 0
Objects: prickly pear cactus · conifer · sandstone cliff · dry grass · shrubs · red soil
Colors: red-orange · cream · pale green · blue · tan
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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The shot opens on prickly pear cactus and a conifer in front of a red and cream sandstone cliff.
The framing holds steady, with the cliff lit by direct sun under a clear blue sky.
The same composition continues unchanged to the end of the shot.

Prickly Pear Cactus and Conifer Below a Sheer Red... — Clip Details

Probably the Zion National Park area of Utah, circa 1968 home movie footage. A single held shot shows a clump of prickly pear cactus with pale green pads and pinkish-purple tints, growing with dry grass on red soil, a small conifer at the left and green shrubs at the right. Behind them a sheer red and cream sandstone cliff rises into a clear blue sky, with paler rounded rock to its left. The camera stays still for the full 4.8 seconds, and the focus is soft throughout.

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: 800000023

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People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1968 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: Zion National Park, Utah, 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: Fits requests for 1960s American Southwest vacation scenery, giving a people-free desert landscape for travel, nature or road-trip sequences.
Period detail: The frame holds no datable object; the warm colour rendition and grain may show a 1960s colour reversal stock, and the date rests on the rest of the trip.
Home-movie behavior: A visitor pauses to frame cactus against a cliff, the kind of scenic keepsake shot a traveller takes between stops on a park trip.
What appears in frame: Prickly pear pads with pinkish-purple tints, a tuft of dry grass, a small conifer at the left, green shrubs at the right, a sheer red and cream cliff and a clear blue sky.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, warm red and orange rock tones and darkened corners give the shot a hazy small-gauge texture, held steady for its full length.
Edit role: Works as a short scenic cutaway or establishing insert for a desert or canyon sequence, and as a still memory beat between shots with movement.
Historical context: The shot reflects the habit of recording roadside scenery on film during family car trips to the national parks of the Southwest in the 1960s.
Research note: No people, signs or logos are visible; the location is an estimate from neighbouring footage, and the land appears to be public parkland, which a licensee should confirm for their own use.
Research search match: Prickly pear cactus red rock cliff, 1960s Utah desert home movie, vintage Southwest canyon scenery, amateur film desert plants.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with Warm-lit sandstone peaks and Cross-bedded slickrock dome from this reel, then with White trumpet flowers by a trail marker, then other 1960s Southwest desert footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Prickly pear cactus and a conifer below a red and cream sandstone cliff, probably the Zion area of Utah, circa 1968. — The shot opens on prickly pear cactus and a conifer below a sunlit sandstone cliff, probably in the Zion area of Utah, circa 1968.
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Soft-focus home movie frame of cactus pads and dry grass beneath a tall sandstone cliff, likely southern Utah, circa 1968. — Mid-shot, the framing is unchanged: cactus pads and dry grass in the foreground, the cliff face in full sun behind.
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Desert vegetation of cactus, shrubs and a conifer under red and cream rock walls, probably near Zion National Park, circa 1968. — Pale green cactus, dark shrubs and a conifer sit below red and cream rock walls in a steady, soft-focus frame.
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Sunlit sandstone cliff above a cactus clump and a small evergreen on red ground, Utah canyon country, circa 1968 home movie. — Near the end of the shot the sunlit cliff still stands over the cactus clump and small evergreen, with no camera movement.
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