San Diego California USA-1961: Two Whitewashed Spanish-Style Buildings With Tile Roofs

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationSan Diego, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 California

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Two Whitewashed Spanish-Style Buildings With Tile Roofs — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1961 in San Diego, California, showcasing two whitewashed Spanish-style buildings with distinctive tile rooflines and ornate balconies. The camera pans slowly across the structures under a deep blue sky, capturing the classic architectural details of mid-century California homes. The film exhibits natural grain and color shifts typical of 8mm footage from the era, with warm sunlight highlighting the white stucco and terracotta tiles. This archival clip offers authentic period atmosphere for historical, nostalgic, or documentary projects.

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: 120804784

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: Supports archival requests for early 1960s Southern California residential or resort-style architecture as a short documentary cutaway or establishing detail.
Period detail: The white stucco walls, terracotta rooflines, balconies, pergola-like trim, and tall decorative towers may show mid-century Spanish Revival influence in San Diego architecture.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, with the camera panning across the buildings from a nearby street or open vantage point rather than staging the scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two whitewashed multistory buildings, red tile roof edges, narrow towers, balconies, large windows, a pale pole, dark trees, and a deep blue sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and color shifts that give the architecture an authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an architectural insert, location transition, exterior cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a 1961 San Diego sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually documents a built environment associated with California Spanish-style design, without showing people, street signage, or activity that would identify a specific property or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but the buildings may still require property-identification review depending on the intended use and any separate copyright questions.
Research search match: Useful search phrasing includes 1961 San Diego 8mm Spanish-style buildings, Southern California stucco architecture home movie, and vintage tile-roof residential exteriors.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1961 San Diego exteriors, then with broader Southern California Spanish-style architecture footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 San Diego home-movie frame showing two whitewashed Spanish-style multistory buildings with red tile roof edges, balconies, towers, trees, and deep blue sky. — White stucco buildings with Spanish-style rooflines.

1961 San Diego frame with the camera centered on white stucco Spanish-style facades, ornate balcony trim, tall tower elements, windows, and dark trees in the background. — Spanish-style facades and tower details.

1961 San Diego home-movie frame showing a closer view of Spanish-style stucco architecture with a tall tower, red tile roofline, balcony details, windows, and a vertical pole. — Closer view of stucco tower and balcony details.

1961 San Diego frame showing whitewashed Spanish-style buildings with terracotta rooflines, balcony structures, dark trees, window openings, and a pale pole in the foreground. — Tile rooflines and balconies in bright daylight.

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