Volmer Yucaipa California USA-1959: Plane Flying Over Water At Dusk

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationVolmer Yucaipa, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Plane Flying Over Water At Dusk — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1959 showing a small aircraft flying low over a vast body of water at dusk. The scene is bathed in a surreal purple and lavender hue, characteristic of aged film stock. A distant plane moves across the horizon, its silhouette barely visible against the hazy sky. The image exhibits classic Super 8 grain, scratches, and film artifacts, with a black border framing the shot. This archival clip captures a rare moment of aviation over water, evoking mid-century Americana and nostalgic travel memories.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Aerial
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122696334

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 1084 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: philip 15 mos,santa anita,vegas,arizona,new mexico
Reel-level year note: 1958-1959
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1959 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: Volmer Yucaipa, 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: Supports 1950s editorial requests for small-aircraft or coastal-water cutaways from real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The 8mm format, soft color shift, and metadata-supported 1959 date place the clip in a late-1950s home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the value of an unstaged observer watching a distant plane skim the horizon over open water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open water, a hazy dusk sky, a small distant aircraft, horizon line, purple color cast, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip carries aged 8mm texture through grain, lavender fading, soft focus, exposure variation, scratches, and visible frame edges.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quiet aviation insert, watery transition, travel-memory cutaway, or atmospheric end-of-day beat.
Historical context: The scene shows mid-century home-movie attention to aviation and waterside travel without enough visible detail to identify a specific site.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright and aircraft or location identification should still be checked for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1959 8mm airplane over water, vintage aircraft horizon, dusk home movie water, and California archive aviation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1959 Yucaipa or California material, then broader vintage aviation-over-water scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 8mm frame showing a small distant aircraft near the horizon over open water, with a lavender dusk cast. — A small aircraft appears near the horizon over a broad body of water.

1959 8mm frame with a distant plane low on the horizon over water, seen through faded purple film color. — The aircraft remains low against the horizon in the dusk-toned frame.

1959 8mm frame showing the aircraft as a small silhouette over water, with soft focus and visible film aging. — The plane is barely visible as it moves along the waterline.

1959 8mm frame with a distant plane near the water horizon, framed by the soft faded color of aged film. — The distant aircraft holds close to the horizon over the water.

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