Central Coast California USA-1973: Windswept Cypress Trees and Classic Car at Coastal Overlook

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

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Windswept Cypress Trees and Classic Car at Coastal Overlook — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 capturing the iconic windswept cypress trees along the Central Coast of California. The clip shows a classic yellow sedan parked near a grassy overlook, with the ocean visible in the background under a hazy, overcast sky. The distinctive, permanently bent trees are shaped by relentless coastal winds, creating a dramatic silhouette against the pale sky. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic frame borders of 8mm home movie footage, evoking a strong sense of nostalgia and Americana. This authentic archival clip is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or projects exploring California's natural beauty and mid-20th century travel culture.

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: 120954663

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: Archival 1970s California coastal travel footage suited for documentary cutaways about road trips, ocean overlooks, natural scenery, and home-movie views of the Central Coast.
Period detail: The classic yellow sedan, 8mm frame borders, muted color, and handheld framing support the 1973 home-movie period noted in the metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on windswept trees, a parked car, and the hazy ocean rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include bent coastal cypress trees, a yellow sedan, grassy overlook, low wooden rail, weathered stump or driftwood, pale sky, and distant ocean haze.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, slight color fading, dark frame edges, and minor exposure variation that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet insert, travel-memory transition, environmental cutaway, or establishing detail for a California coast sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects a roadside coastal sightseeing moment with natural wind-shaped trees and automobile travel as the main visible social context.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location permissions, and any property implications should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1970s 8mm California coast home movie, windswept cypress trees, coastal overlook with classic car, and vintage Central Coast travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 California coast material, then broader 1970s road-trip, ocean overlook, and natural-landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 8mm home-movie frame of windswept cypress-like trees at a California coastal overlook, with a yellow sedan partly visible near the lower left and hazy ocean beyond. — Bent coastal trees and a parked yellow sedan at an ocean overlook.

1973 California coast home-movie frame showing wind-bent trees, a partially seen yellow sedan, a grassy overlook, and a pale ocean horizon under overcast light. — Wind-shaped trees above a parked car and coastal haze.

1973 8mm frame from the California coast showing leaning windswept trees, a yellow sedan partly cropped at the lower left, a small rail, and hazy ocean in the distance. — Leaning coastal trees over a roadside overlook.

Final 1973 California coast frame with silhouetted wind-shaped trees, a cropped yellow sedan, grassy ground, low rail, and distant ocean under a muted sky. — Silhouetted coastal trees with a cropped car at the overlook.

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