Volmer Yucaipa California USA-1959: Old Style Film Of A Plane Taking-Off

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

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Old Style Film Of A Plane Taking-Off — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1959 showing a small propeller plane taking off from a rural airfield. The clip opens on a grassy field with farm buildings and trees under a purple-tinted sky, characteristic of aged film stock. The aircraft, a classic single-engine plane, accelerates down the runway before lifting into the air, its silhouette growing smaller against the hazy sky. The footage exhibits heavy grain, color distortion, and film scratches, capturing the authentic look of mid-century amateur film. This nostalgic archival clip offers a glimpse into early aviation history and everyday life in 1950s America.

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: 122696613

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: Useful for 1950s U.S. aviation inserts, rural airfield context, and documentary scenes needing authentic small-plane takeoff footage.
Period detail: The clip may show a late-1950s rural California airstrip with low farm buildings, open grass, trees, and a small propeller aircraft.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an amateur observer's perspective, holding on a distant plane as it lifts off from the field without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a grassy airfield, low buildings, tree line, hazy sky, film gate edges, and a small propeller aircraft.
Film character: Purple color shift, soft focus, visible grain, scratches, and frame jitter give the 8mm scan a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short aviation insert, rural transition, memory beat, or establishing cutaway for mid-century travel themes.
Historical context: The scene documents everyday small-aircraft activity in a rural setting, with no visible crowds, signage, or commercial markings in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable markings are visible, but aircraft type, airfield identity, copyright status, and property issues should be checked separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 8mm home movie plane takeoff, rural California airfield footage, vintage small aircraft, and mid-century aviation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1959 Yucaipa-area footage, then broader 1950s rural aviation and airfield clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 8mm frame from Yucaipa area showing a distant rural airfield with grass, low structures, trees, and aged purple color shift. — Opening view of the rural airfield before the plane enters the frame.

Small propeller aircraft appears near the runway area at a rural Yucaipa, California airfield in this 1959 8mm home-movie frame. — The small aircraft moves near the runway with low buildings in the background.

The propeller plane lifts into the air over the rural airfield, with low structures and a blurred tree line below. — The aircraft has lifted off and is climbing over the field.

The plane continues climbing across a hazy purple sky, with the ground no longer visible in the sampled frame. — The aircraft climbs away into the open sky.

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