Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument Arizona-1952: Woman in Sunglasses and a Green Coat Turns and Smiles at the Camera

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationOrgan Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona, United States
Duration2s
Price$149 USD
Collection1952 · Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

road trip
travel and tourism
Sonoran Desert
national monuments
1950s leisure
women's fashion
family home movies

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · pan
Setting: outdoor · Sonoran Desert roadside with a paved road, scrub, desert trees, a saguaro and jagged mountains
Time and weather: day · sunny with scattered clouds
Lighting: bright natural daylight
People: 1 · One adult woman with dark hair and sunglasses, wearing a pale green coat draped over her shoulders over a darker top, walking and smiling toward the camera.
Landmarks: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
Objects: sunglasses · pale green coat · paved road
Colors: pale green · ochre · slate blue · olive · pale blue-grey
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Medium
Location confidence: Medium

Moments in the footage

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The woman walks along the roadside with her head lowered.
She lifts her head and looks toward the camera.
She smiles as she moves left across the frame.
Focus softens as she keeps walking, mountains behind her.

Woman in Sunglasses and a Green Coat Turns and Smiles at... — Clip Details

At Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in southern Arizona, circa 1952, home movie footage shows a woman in sunglasses with a pale green coat draped over her shoulders at a desert roadside. She walks with her head lowered, then looks up and smiles toward the lens as she moves left across the frame. Jagged blue-grey mountains, a tall saguaro, dark leafy trees and dry scrub rise behind a paved road. The handheld 8mm camera follows her in one short take.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 2s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800001267

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1952 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: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Fits requests for early-1950s American road-trip moments, giving documentary and education producers a brief, warm human beat set against the Arizona desert.
Period detail: The woman's sunglasses and coat worn draped over the shoulders may show early-1950s women's travel fashion, and the colour rendition matches aged 8mm stock of that era.
Home-movie behavior: An unstaged moment where a traveller, caught walking with her head down, looks up and smiles for the family camera during a roadside stop.
What appears in frame: A woman in sunglasses and a pale green coat, a paved road edge, dry desert scrub, dark leafy trees, a tall saguaro and a line of jagged blue-grey mountains under scattered cloud.
Film character: Handheld 8mm colour with fine grain, dust specks, soft focus on the moving subject and a green-yellow cast in the sky that gives an authentic aged-film texture.
Edit role: Works as a short memory beat or human cutaway between landscape or signage shots in a desert travel sequence.
Historical context: The scene records a car trip to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, proclaimed in 1937 on the Sonora border, as seen by an ordinary visitor rather than an official photographer.
Research note: The woman is unidentified and her face is partly recognisable, so likeness clearance may be required separately from the film copyright; no logos or private property are visible.
Research search match: 1950s woman smiling in the desert, Organ Pipe Cactus home movie, vintage Arizona road trip 8mm, Sonoran Desert traveller circa 1952.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument sign and the man beside an early-1950s sedan from this reel, then the Arizona State Capitol clips, then other 1950s desert road-trip footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Circa 1952 woman in a draped green coat walking head-down at a desert roadside, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona — A traveller walks along the roadside with her head down, circa 1952.
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Woman in sunglasses looking up at the camera on an early-1950s trip to the Sonoran Desert at Organ Pipe Cactus, Arizona — She looks up toward the camera in front of the mountain range.
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Smiling 1950s traveller in sunglasses and a pale green coat in front of jagged mountains, Organ Pipe Cactus, Arizona, circa 1952 — A smile for the family camera at a desert roadside, circa 1952.
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Soft-focus woman in a green coat passing a saguaro and mountain backdrop on a circa 1952 Arizona desert road trip — The traveller moves out of focus as she walks on.
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