Palm Springs California USA-1964: A Summer's Day

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

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A Summer's Day — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Palm Springs, California, in 1964, capturing a serene summer day. The clip features a tree with dense foliage bathed in a striking blue-purple color cast, likely due to film stock or lighting conditions. The camera remains relatively static, focusing on the intricate branches and leaves against a clear sky. The image exhibits classic Super 8 grain and slight color distortion, enhancing its nostalgic, retro aesthetic. This archival footage offers a unique glimpse into mid-century American life and landscape.

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: 120764457

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: Useful as 1960s Palm Springs home-movie nature footage for documentary inserts, atmospheric transitions, or visual references to mid-century leisure landscapes in Southern California.
Period detail: The frames show a leafy tree against open sky with no built environment or objects that independently date the scene beyond the supplied 1964 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged value of a home-movie camera lingering on shade, foliage, and color rather than recording a planned event or posed subject.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dense tree branches, clustered leaves, open blue sky, strong blue-purple color cast, soft focus, film grain, and slight frame-to-frame camera variation.
Film character: The 8mm image carries pronounced grain, soft contrast, muted detail, and a blue-purple dye shift that reads as physical-film texture from an aged home-movie scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, memory beat, or transitional insert between more specific Palm Springs or summer-day scenes.
Historical context: As presented, the footage reflects a domestic or travel-film attention to outdoor atmosphere in Palm Springs rather than a documented public event or identifiable landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, audible music, or identifiable private property are visible in the provided frames, but copyright and location-related clearance should still be reviewed separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1964 Palm Springs 8mm home movie tree foliage, 1960s California summer landscape footage, and blue-purple vintage film nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1964 Palm Springs footage, then with broader 1960s California summer, desert resort, or home-movie nature material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Palm Springs 8mm home-movie frame showing dense leafy branches silhouetted against a blue-purple sky. — Tree canopy against color-shifted sky.

Color-shifted 8mm frame from Palm Springs in 1964 showing a tree crown and branching structure against open sky. — Branches and foliage fill the frame.

1964 home-movie still from Palm Springs with soft, grainy tree foliage and sky under a pronounced blue-purple film cast. — Soft foliage with vintage color cast.

Palm Springs 1964 8mm frame showing a darker tree trunk and branching foliage against a blue-purple sky. — Tree trunk and branches against sky.

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