Sacramento California USA-1966: Vintage Motel With Fountain And Sign

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Year1966
Decade1960s
LocationSacramento, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1966 California

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Vintage Motel With Fountain And Sign — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1966 in Sacramento, California, capturing a nostalgic roadside motel scene. The clip opens on a low-angle view of a motel building with a covered entrance, then pans to a prominent motel sign with flower beds. A circular fountain with a central statue sits in a landscaped yard, surrounded by a white picket fence and manicured greenery. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight camera shake, evoking mid-century Americana and road trip memories.

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: 121300486

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 1106 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: wedding,vacation
Reel-level year note: 1966
Reel-level location note: danville,illinois,california
Date: 1966 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: Sacramento, 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: Useful for 1960s roadside travel, motel, and California home-movie inserts in documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits.
Period detail: The motel sign, white fence, landscaped fountain, and saturated 8mm color may show mid-1960s American roadside design.
Home-movie behavior: The brief handheld pan reads as a traveler recording a motel exterior and landscaped grounds rather than a staged scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a motel sign, flower beds, roadside lanes, white fence, circular fountain, central statue, lawn, and distant trees.
Film character: The clip has 8mm grain, soft focus, mild exposure shifts, faded color, gate marks, and handheld movement typical of home-movie film.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a short establishing insert, travel transition, roadside Americana cutaway, or memory beat.
Historical context: The scene documents a landscaped motel frontage and roadside setting associated with mid-century car travel without identifying a specific business.
Research note: No people are visible, but readable signage or identifiable property should still be reviewed separately from copyright licensing.
Research search match: Searches for 1960s Sacramento motel 8mm footage, roadside motel fountain, vintage California travel film, and mid-century motel exterior may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel motel or travel shots, then Sacramento 1966 material, then broader 1960s roadside lodging and Americana scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1966 Sacramento 8mm frame showing part of a motel sign, flower planters, roadside lanes, lawn, and distant trees. — Motel sign and flower beds near a roadside frontage.

1966 Sacramento motel grounds with a roadside signpost, open lawn, circular fountain area, and distant traffic. — Roadside motel grounds with fountain area coming into view.

1966 Sacramento motel exterior with a circular fountain, central statue, white fence, lawn, and trees beyond the road. — Circular fountain and statue in the landscaped motel yard.

1966 Sacramento 8mm frame showing a motel fountain, central statue, white fence, lawn, shrubs, and roadside background. — White fence and fountain at the motel frontage.

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