Palm Springs California USA-1964: American Flag Blowing Over a Memorial Plaque

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationPalm Springs, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 Palm Springs California

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American Flag Blowing Over a Memorial Plaque — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1964 in Palm Springs, California, showing a weathered memorial plaque mounted on a large rock in a wooded area. The scene is bathed in a distinct purple-blue color cast typical of aged film, with trees and snow visible in the background. The camera pans upward to reveal an American flag waving in the wind among the trees, capturing a nostalgic, patriotic moment from mid-century America. The footage exhibits natural film grain and slight motion blur, characteristic of handheld Super 8 recordings.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120764372

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 2229 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1964
Reel-level location note: palm springs
Date: 1964 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Palm Springs, California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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.

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s 8mm Palm Springs home-movie material for productions needing a brief patriotic memorial cutaway with an American flag, stone plaque, trees, and mountain snow atmosphere.
Period detail: The visible 1964-era clue is mainly the home-movie film stock and camera handling, while the plaque text and exact memorial identity are not readable in these frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on a mounted plaque before tilting or panning upward toward the flag among the trees.
What appears in frame: The frames show a dark memorial plaque on a large rock, pale snow patches, evergreen branches, blue sky, tree trunks, and a small American flag moving in the wind.
Film character: The scan carries visible 8mm grain, soft focus, purple-blue age color shift, slight blur, and handheld movement that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short patriotic insert, memorial cutaway, location transition, or reflective memory beat within a mid-century American sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually connects a public memorial marker and American flag with a wooded California setting, but the specific dedication or commemorated event cannot be identified from the frames alone.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, though the plaque may require research for location identification, inscription content, and any separate property or memorial-use considerations.
Research search match: Researchers might look for 1964 8mm Palm Springs American flag footage, vintage memorial plaque on rock, California home movie patriotic cutaway, or aged 8mm flag in trees.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1964 Palm Springs exteriors, and then with broader American flag, memorial, or mid-century travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Palm Springs-area 8mm frame showing a dark memorial plaque fixed to a large boulder, with snow patches and trees in the background. — Plaque on a boulder beneath snowy trees.

1964 Palm Springs-area frame with the memorial plaque still visible on the rock as the camera rises toward a small American flag among trees. — Plaque and flag glimpsed among trees.

Aged 8mm frame from the Palm Springs clip showing the boulder and snow beneath dark trees as the plaque drops out of clear view. — Rock, snow, and tree cover during the pan.

1964 Palm Springs-area home-movie frame showing a small American flag partly obscured by trees as it waves against the blue sky. — American flag visible through the trees.

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