Grand Canyon Arizona-1970: Flat-Topped Butte and Red Canyon Walls Framed by a Young Pine

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Year1970
Decade1970s
LocationGrand Canyon, Arizona, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1970 · Grand Canyon, Arizona, United States

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

Need 10+ clips? Send your brief and get a curated shortlist →

Stockfilm licenses the rights identified in the applicable agreement. Additional use-specific review may be required. See the Licensing Guide and Archive Integrity.

Explore this year and place

Compare featured footage, popular clips and the full collection.

Same year and place1970 · Grand Canyon, Arizona, United StatesExplore footage →Across the archiveFilmed in 1970Explore the year →Across the yearsGrand Canyon, Arizona, United StatesExplore the place →

What is in this clip

national park scenery
canyon geology
road trip vacation
American Southwest
natural framing
amateur landscape filmmaking
wilderness

Shot type: wide
Camera: static · handheld · Eye level, looking slightly down across the canyon
Setting: outdoor · Canyon rim overlooking a flat-topped butte, banded red cliffs and a brush-covered ridge, with a pine in the foreground
Time and weather: daytime · Hazy with a pale, mostly clear sky
Lighting: Bright, diffuse daylight with atmospheric haze in the distance
People: 0 · No people are visible.
Landmarks: Grand Canyon North Rim
Objects: young pine tree · flat-topped butte · talus slope · banded red cliffs · brush-covered ridge · hazy distant plain
Colors: red · green · pale blue · tan · grey
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Medium

Moments in the footage

Select a time to watch that moment in the preview.

The shot opens on a young pine in the left foreground with a flat-topped butte behind it.
The frame holds steady on the butte, its pale talus slope and the banded red cliffs below.
A slight handheld drift shifts the framing while the dark ridge on the right and hazy plain stay in view.
The composition settles again on the pine and butte before the clip ends.

Flat-Topped Butte and Red Canyon Walls Framed by a Young... — Clip Details

Grand Canyon North Rim, Arizona, circa 1970 home movie footage. A young pine stands in the left foreground, and behind it a flat-topped butte rises on a pale talus slope above banded red cliffs. A darker, brush-covered ridge slopes across the right side, with a hazy plain and pale sky showing through the gap between the two. The camera holds one steady, slightly telephoto composition for five seconds, with light handheld drift and the soft colour of small-gauge film.

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: 800000028

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: 1970 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: Grand Canyon, 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

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

Open Clip Documentation Record Request source information

Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Suits requests for circa 1970 visitor-shot scenery of the Grand Canyon North Rim, for documentaries on park tourism, Southwest travel or canyon geology.
Period detail: No vehicles, clothing or signs appear in the shot; the era rests on the reel's other signs and on the soft, slightly faded colour of the film.
Home-movie behavior: A visitor stops at the rim and holds the camera on a view they liked, using a nearby pine as a foreground frame the way a snapshot photographer would.
What appears in frame: A young pine in the left foreground, a flat-topped butte on a pale talus slope, banded red cliffs below, a dark brush-covered ridge on the right, and a hazy plain under a pale sky.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, a few dust specks and darkened corners give the shot the texture of projected small-gauge film, with reds and greens still well separated.
Edit role: Works as a short scenic insert or memory beat inside a Grand Canyon sequence, or as a quiet cutaway between sign shots and wider pans.
Historical context: The shot is part of a private road trip through Arizona and Utah parks, and shows the kind of rim view that visitors of the period recorded on home-movie film.
Research note: No people, logos or private property are visible; the exact viewpoint is not identified, and copyright in the film is a separate matter from any likeness or property questions.
Research search match: Grand Canyon North Rim home movie, vintage butte and pine landscape, circa 1970 Arizona canyon footage, red layered cliffs amateur film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the North Rim cliff pan, Angels Window arch and park entrance sign from this reel, then other circa 1970 Arizona canyon footage, then Southwest road-trip landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Young pine framing a flat-topped butte and banded red cliffs at the Grand Canyon North Rim, Arizona, circa 1970. — The opening framing: a rim pine on the left, a flat-topped butte behind it and red cliff bands below, Grand Canyon North Rim, circa 1970.
License this still · $49

Flat-topped butte on a pale talus slope seen past pine branches, Grand Canyon North Rim, circa 1970 home movie. — The butte sits on a pale, brush-dotted slope, with a darker ridge running across the right side of the frame.
License this still · $49

Hazy plain seen through the gap between a butte and a ridge, with a rim pine at left, Grand Canyon North Rim, circa 1970. — Through the gap between the butte and the ridge, a hazy plain fades into a pale sky.
License this still · $49

Soft-focus rim pine in front of a butte and layered red rock walls in vintage film of the Grand Canyon North Rim, Arizona. — The closing frame holds the same composition, with the layered red walls filling the lower right.
License this still · $49

Visually Similar Clips