Arizona-1952: Smiling Man in a Checked Shirt Beside a Two-Tone Sedan in the Desert

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationArizona, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1952 · Arizona, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

road trip
desert travel
postwar car culture
tourism in the American Southwest
family vacation
mid-century leisure

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · pan
Setting: outdoor · Sonoran Desert roadside with scrub, saguaro cacti and a distant mountain range
Time and weather: midday · clear and sunny
Lighting: bright direct sunlight with chrome highlights
People: 1 · An adult man with dark hair and eyeglasses, wearing a light checked long-sleeved shirt, smiling and laughing beside a car.
Vehicles: dark early-1950s sedan with pale green roof
Objects: red taillights · chrome bumper · car windows · checked shirt · eyeglasses
Colors: navy blue · pale green · violet · olive · cream
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Medium
Location confidence: Medium

Moments in the footage

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Rear of a dark two-tone sedan against desert scrub and mountains.
A man in a checked shirt steps in from the left, laughing.
He stands by the car and glances down with a smile.
He turns and walks right as the camera pans along the car.
Side of the sedan with a saguaro and jagged peak behind.

Smiling Man in a Checked Shirt Beside a Two-Tone Sedan... — Clip Details

Southern Arizona, circa 1952 home movie footage. The shot opens on the rear of a dark sedan with a pale green roof, its red taillights and chrome bumper set against desert scrub, saguaros and a purple mountain ridge. A man in glasses and a light checked shirt steps in from the left, laughs, glances down, then turns and walks out to the right. The handheld 8mm camera pans along the side of the car toward a tall saguaro and a jagged peak.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800001268

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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: 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 circa 1952 American road-trip imagery, giving a documentary or exhibit a real traveller beside a period car in the Arizona desert.
Period detail: The dark two-tone sedan with a pale green roof, chrome bumper and rounded tail styling, plus the man's checked shirt and wire-frame glasses, point to the early 1950s.
Home-movie behavior: The man laughs, looks away shyly and walks off mid-shot, an unposed moment of someone half-performing for a family camera at a roadside stop.
What appears in frame: A man in glasses and a checked shirt, a dark sedan with a pale green roof, red taillights, desert scrub, saguaro cacti and a jagged purple mountain ridge under a clear sky.
Film character: Regular 8mm colour with heavy grain, dust specks, a violet cast in the sky and soft motion blur from a quick handheld pan, giving an authentic projected-film texture.
Edit role: Works as a memory beat or character cutaway inside a road-trip sequence, or as a bridge between desert landscape shots and travel scenes.
Historical context: Car travel to desert parks in the Southwest grew after the war, and this reel records one such trip that also passed Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, established in 1937.
Research note: The man is identifiable and unnamed, so likeness permissions are a separate question from copyright in the film; the privately owned car shows no readable badge or plate.
Research search match: 1950s man beside car desert, two-tone sedan 8mm home movie, Arizona road trip archival footage, saguaro desert vintage car.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument sign and woman smiling in the desert, then the Arizona State Capitol shots, then other 1950s road-trip clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Rear of a dark early-1950s sedan with red taillights in Sonoran Desert scrub, southern Arizona, circa 1952. — The family sedan parked off the road in the southern Arizona desert, circa 1952.
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Laughing man in a checked shirt beside a two-tone early-1950s sedan, Arizona desert, circa 1952. — A traveller laughs at the camera beside the two-tone sedan, Arizona, circa 1952.
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Smiling man in glasses stands by a dark two-tone sedan under jagged desert peaks, southern Arizona, circa 1952. — Standing by the car with a shy smile, desert peaks behind, circa 1952.
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Side view of a two-tone early-1950s sedan with a tall saguaro and jagged peak, Sonoran Desert, Arizona, circa 1952. — The sedan's side and pale green roof against a saguaro and desert peak, circa 1952.
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