Palm Springs California USA-1964: Large Tree Against Twilight Sky

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

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Large Tree Against Twilight Sky — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1964 in Palm Springs, California, showing a large tree with dense branches against a deep blue twilight sky. The film exhibits a strong purple-blue color cast typical of early color film stock, with visible grain and slight motion blur. The camera remains relatively static, focusing on the tree's silhouette and intricate branch structure. This archival clip captures a quiet, atmospheric moment in a desert landscape, evoking nostalgia and the charm of mid-century home movies.

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: 120764390

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This clip supports requests for 1960s Palm Springs home-movie nature cutaways, especially quiet atmospheric inserts for documentary, museum, education, or period memory sequences.
Period detail: The visible period detail comes mainly from the 8mm color-film rendering, with a strong blue-purple cast and grain rather than identifiable architecture, vehicles, clothing, or signage.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds on a large tree canopy from a simple observer's position, giving the clip the unstaged quality of a home-movie pause during outdoor travel or family filming.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark tree trunks, dense branching, needle-like foliage, patches of deep blue sky, film grain, soft focus, and a horizontal contact-sheet seam across the compiled still.
Film character: The footage has a saturated blue-purple twilight cast, visible 8mm grain, mild softness, and slight blur that read as physical-film texture from a mid-century home-movie scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a cutaway, transition, atmospheric pause, or memory beat between more specific Palm Springs or desert-travel scenes.
Historical context: The clip places attention on landscape and mood rather than people or built environment, offering a restrained 1960s home-movie view of outdoor surroundings in Palm Springs as identified by the metadata.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in the supplied frames, but copyright, location identification, and any broader reel context should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely researcher searches include 1964 Palm Springs 8mm tree footage, 1960s California home movie landscape, vintage twilight tree branches, and desert travel nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then other 1964 Palm Springs footage, then broader 1960s California landscape or home-movie nature scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Palm Springs home-movie frame showing a large tree canopy with dark branches and needle-like foliage against a blue-purple sky. — Tree branches silhouetted against blue twilight sky.

1964 Palm Springs 8mm frame with dense tree limbs and foliage filling the view against a saturated blue sky. — Dense canopy and branching limbs.

1964 Palm Springs home-movie frame showing vertical tree trunks, tangled branches, and foliage rendered in a blue-purple archival film cast. — Tree trunks and tangled branches.

1964 Palm Springs 8mm frame holding on a large tree canopy, with dark branches and foliage silhouetted against the deep blue sky. — Large tree canopy at twilight.

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