United States-1957: Weathered Hand Holding Up a Broken Rock Specimen Over Desert Gravel

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationUnited States
Duration2s
Price$149 USD
Collection1957 · United States
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What is in this clip

rockhounding
amateur geology
discovery
outdoor hobby
1950s leisure
desert travel

Shot type: close-up
Camera: handheld
Setting: outdoor · dry desert gravel slope with scattered dark stones and a pale wash
Time and weather: day · clear, sunny
Lighting: natural daylight, flat and slightly hazy
People: 1 · One person seen only as a weathered hand and wrist in a dark sleeve; no face visible.
Objects: rock specimen · gravel · stones · sleeve
Colors: grey-brown · pale beige · warm skin tone · off-white · dark charcoal
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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A weathered hand holds a pale broken stone up to the camera over desert gravel.
The dark hollow centre of the specimen faces the lens as the hand stays steady.
The hand still presents the find as the shot ends.

Weathered Hand Holding Up a Broken Rock Specimen Over... — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1957, home movie footage shows a close-up of a weathered hand holding a pale, broken stone specimen up to the camera. The piece has a chalky white crust around a dark hollow centre lined with darker mineral. Behind it, out of focus, a dry gravel slope scattered with dark stones falls away toward a pale wash. The single handheld 8mm shot lasts about two seconds, with soft focus and muted daylight colour.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-upExterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 2s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800002028

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$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.

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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: 1957 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: 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: Serves requests for authentic 1950s-era rock-hunting or amateur geology footage, useful as an insert in hobby history, education or nature documentaries.
Period detail: The muted colour and grain of small-gauge film and the dark sleeve may show a late-1950s home movie, though the close-up itself holds no datable object.
Home-movie behavior: An unstaged moment of a collector proudly holding a fresh find up to the family camera so it is recorded.
What appears in frame: A weathered hand, a pale broken stone with a dark hollow centre, a dark sleeve at the wrist, a gravel slope with scattered dark stones, and a pale dry wash behind.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain and muted daylight colour give the shot the texture of a projected 8mm home movie, with slight handheld drift.
Edit role: Works as a detail insert or cutaway between wider shots of people searching slopes, or as a short memory beat about finding something.
Historical context: Rock and mineral collecting was a popular family hobby in the postwar United States, and this frame shows the simple hands-on side of a desert collecting outing.
Research note: Copyright in the film is separate from personal likeness; only a hand is visible, so identification risk is low, but the person is unknown and the collecting site is unidentified and may be private land.
Research search match: vintage rockhounding footage, 1950s rock collecting home movie, hand holding mineral specimen 8mm, amateur geology archive film
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's rock-hunting on slope and group crossing a black lava field, then the family climbing down sandy bank and man walking past Chevrolet pickup, then other circa-1950s desert outings.

Still Frames From This Clip

Weathered hand holds up a pale broken stone specimen over desert gravel, United States, circa 1957 home movie — A collector holds a broken stone with a dark hollow centre up to the camera.
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Fingers grip a chalky white mineral sample against a blurred desert slope on a circa 1957 US rock-hunting trip — The specimen's white crust and darker interior face the lens.
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Hand steadily presents a broken stone above grey-brown desert gravel in circa 1957 8mm home movie footage, United States — The hand keeps the find steady over the gravel ground.
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Final moment of a rockhound's hand showing a pale specimen, dry slope and wash behind, United States circa 1957 — The shot ends with the specimen still held up against the dry slope.
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