San Diego California USA-1961: Purple and Brown Apartment Building with Palm Trees

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationSan Diego, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 · San Diego, California, United States
StatusDirect License

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Purple and Brown Apartment Building with Palm Trees — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1961 in San Diego, California, showing a multi-story apartment building with a distinctive purple and brown facade. The building features white-trimmed windows and a red-tiled roof, partially obscured by palm trees and other foliage. A red vehicle passes in the foreground, adding motion to the scene. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight camera shake, capturing a nostalgic slice of mid-century American residential architecture and suburban life.

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: 120804459

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 1740 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: indian pow wow
Reel-level year note: 1961-1966
Reel-level location note: san bernardino,california,slaton sea
Date: 1961 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: San Diego, 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: Useful for 1960s San Diego residential exterior requests needing a brief home-movie cutaway of mid-century apartment architecture and street-side atmosphere.
Period detail: The red-tiled roof, white-trimmed windows, colored facade, mature palms, and soft 8mm color may show early-1960s Southern California apartment or student-housing streetscape details.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of a casual visitor or resident glance at a building facade, with no staged action and only passing street movement.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a multi-story apartment building, purple-blue upper siding, brown lower facade, white window trim, red-tiled roof, palm trunks, tree branches, and a brief red vehicle at street level.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, visible grain, magenta color shift, uneven exposure, and slight handheld drift.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, residential cutaway, transition beat, or visual memory cue for San Diego in the early 1960s.
Historical context: The view documents exterior residential architecture and landscaping associated with mid-century urban Southern California, without visible people or identifiable activity in the frames.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or readable brands are visible, but the building exterior and any location identification should still be reviewed separately for property, copyright, and contextual use concerns.
Research search match: Searches this may match include 1961 San Diego 8mm apartment exterior, Southern California mid-century residential building, palm trees apartment facade, and vintage home movie student housing exterior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1961 San Diego exteriors, and then with broader 1960s California residential, campus-area, or apartment-building footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 San Diego home-movie frame showing the upper levels of a multi-story apartment building with white-trimmed windows, a red-tiled roof, and tree branches in the foreground. — Apartment upper facade behind trees.
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1961 San Diego frame showing a brown and purple-blue apartment exterior with white-framed windows, palm foliage, and a red vehicle passing low in the foreground. — Building facade with passing red vehicle.
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1961 San Diego home-movie frame showing a corner angle of the apartment building, with blue-gray siding above brown walls and a tall tree trunk partly blocking the windows. — Corner of apartment building through trees.
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1961 San Diego frame showing the front portion of a multi-story apartment building with a gabled blue-gray upper facade, white-trimmed windows, brown lower wall, entrance area, and trees at the edges. — Front facade and entrance area.
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