Central Coast California USA-1973: Rocky Island And Lone Cypress Tree On Cliff

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

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Rocky Island And Lone Cypress Tree On Cliff — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 capturing a rocky island in the Central Coast of California. The clip opens on a small, treeless islet surrounded by calm ocean waters, then transitions to a dramatic coastal viewpoint featuring the iconic Lone Cypress tree clinging to a rugged cliff. Shot through a natural frame of evergreen branches, the scene evokes classic mid-century Americana with its soft color palette, film grain, and nostalgic atmosphere. The footage offers authentic archival material for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling about California's natural beauty.

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: 120954624

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 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: This 1973 8mm coastal clip supports archive requests for 1970s California shoreline views, rocky ocean scenery, and visitor-shot natural landmarks for documentary or editorial use.
Period detail: The soft color, visible film grain, and handheld framing support a 1970s home-movie reading, while the coastal subjects themselves remain mostly timeless natural features.
Home-movie behavior: The footage carries a visitor-shot perspective, pausing first on an offshore rock and then reframing a lone cypress on a cliff through dark evergreen branches.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm ocean water, a small rocky island, shoreline rocks, a rugged cliff, a lone wind-shaped cypress, and silhouetted evergreen branches.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows moderate grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet frame edges that give the clip a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet insert, coastal transition, nature cutaway, or reflective memory beat within a California travel or landscape sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents recreational looking at the Central Coast landscape in the early 1970s without showing people, vehicles, signage, or built structures in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible in these frames, but copyright, location identification, and any property or landmark restrictions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely researcher matches include 1970s 8mm California coast, rocky island ocean home movie, Lone Cypress style cliff view, Central Coast shoreline, and vintage coastal landscape footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1973 Central Coast California views, and finally with broader archival themes of rocky shorelines, ocean viewpoints, and lone coastal trees.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 8mm Central Coast California frame showing a low rocky island offshore with calm water and shoreline rocks in the foreground. — Rocky offshore island in calm coastal water.

1973 8mm coastal view of a small rock islet in the ocean, with scattered foreground rocks and a muted horizon line. — Offshore rock viewed from the shoreline.

1973 8mm Central Coast California frame showing a lone cypress on a rugged cliff above the ocean, seen through silhouetted evergreen branches. — Lone cypress on a rocky coastal cliff.

1973 8mm coastal frame of a wind-shaped cypress on a rocky promontory, with ocean beyond and foreground branches forming a natural frame. — Cypress and cliff framed by shoreline trees.

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