Central Coast California USA-1973: Car On A Parking And Signal

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationCoast, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Car On A Parking And Signal — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 capturing a sunny day on the Central Coast of California. The clip opens with a roadside sign for 'Shepherd's Knoll' surrounded by dense trees and greenery, then transitions to a classic gold-colored Pontiac sedan parked in a lot. The car, likely a 1970s model, features chrome bumpers and whitewall tires, with a person visible inside. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic frame borders of Super 8 footage, evoking a nostalgic, authentic slice of Americana from the era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120954426

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 1395 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: honeymoon
Reel-level year note: 1973
Reel-level location note: salt lake,utah,sf, california,monerey,lake tahoe
Date: 1973 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: Coast, 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: Archival home-movie footage suited to requests for early 1970s California roadside travel, parking-lot cutaways, and everyday automobile-era atmosphere.
Period detail: The chrome-bumpered sedan, whitewall tires, film stock appearance, and metadata-supported 1973 date place the scene in a 1970s roadside or visitor-parking context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged traveler viewpoint, briefly registering a roadside sign before lingering on a parked car with a person visible inside.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a Shepherd's Knoll roadside sign, dense trees and shrubs, a paved parking area, a gold-colored sedan, another parked car, chrome bumpers, whitewall tires, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm image carries home-movie grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, slight color fading, and contact-print frame borders that preserve its physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, travel transition, parking-lot cutaway, or memory beat within a 1970s California sequence.
Historical context: The footage reflects ordinary leisure or road-travel documentation on California's Central Coast without supporting a more specific event or landmark claim beyond the visible sign.
Research note: Human review should consider visible faces or likeness, possible vehicle make identification, and the Shepherd's Knoll sign as a location or brand marker, with copyright and likeness or property concerns assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1973 Central Coast California home movie, 1970s roadside sign 8mm footage, vintage parking lot car, and Super 8 California travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1973 Central Coast California material, then broader 1970s road-trip, parking, and vintage automobile scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

A Shepherd's Knoll roadside sign stands beside a paved edge with dense greenery in metadata-supported 1973 Central Coast California home-movie footage. — Shepherd's Knoll sign by roadside greenery.

A gold-colored 1970s-style sedan with chrome bumper and whitewall tires is parked in a sunny lot, with another vehicle and a person visible in the background area. — Gold sedan in a sunny parking lot.

The parked gold-colored sedan fills much of the frame, showing its rear quarter, chrome trim, whitewall tire, and another car partly visible behind it. — Close view of parked gold sedan.

A gold-colored sedan remains parked in bright sunlight against trees and a paved lot, with the 8mm frame edge visible around the scene. — Sedan parked beside trees.

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