San Francisco California USA-1973: Vintage Hotel Building with Palm Trees

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 San Francisco California

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Vintage Hotel Building with Palm Trees — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 in San Francisco, California, showing a tall historic hotel building with ornate architecture and numerous windows. The clip features a distinctive purple color tint and film grain, with palm trees visible in the foreground. The camera slowly pans downward, revealing more of the building's facade and street level, capturing a nostalgic urban scene from the era.

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: 120966154

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: San Francisco, 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 San Francisco 8mm clip can serve documentary or educational requests for early-1970s urban hotel architecture, visitor travel footage, or city establishing detail.
Period detail: The ornate high-rise hotel facade, palm trees, and purple-tinted 8mm color suggest a 1970s visitor view of downtown San Francisco architecture, as supported by the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The slow downward pan reads as a visitor-shot observation of a tall hotel building rather than a staged architectural survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tall historic hotel facade, many rectangular windows, decorative cornice details, palm fronds, streetlights, dark film borders, and soft handheld framing.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, mild blur, purple color shift, uneven exposure, and gate edges that give it a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief city insert, travel-memory transition, hotel exterior cutaway, or atmospheric beat in a 1970s San Francisco sequence.
Historical context: The clip provides a street-level travel perspective on dense urban hotel architecture and palm-lined city scenery without showing identifiable people or activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but the building exterior should still be reviewed for copyright, trademark, location, and property-context concerns before use.
Research search match: Researchers may find this under searches for 1973 San Francisco 8mm hotel exterior, vintage California city building, palm trees urban travel footage, or 1970s home movie architecture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 San Francisco footage, then with broader vintage hotel, city street, vacation, and urban architecture material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 San Francisco 8mm frame showing the upper portion of a tall ornate hotel building with many windows and a purple film tint. — Upper hotel facade with repeated windows.

1973 San Francisco 8mm frame of a historic hotel exterior with repeated window rows, decorative upper trim, and palm fronds entering from the right. — Hotel windows and palm fronds.

1973 San Francisco 8mm frame showing a downward view on the hotel exterior, with palm fronds and a streetlight visible near the lower edge. — Lower facade with palm and streetlight.

1973 San Francisco 8mm frame showing the hotel exterior with multiple palm trees in the foreground and street-level detail at the bottom of the frame. — Hotel exterior behind palm trees.

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