Volmer Yucaipa California USA-1959: Small Plane Getting Ready For Take Off In Field

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

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Small Plane Getting Ready For Take Off In Field — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1959 showing a small propeller plane on a grassy field in Volmer Yucaipa, California. The aircraft, a classic light plane, sits ready for takeoff as the camera captures it from a distance across the open field. The entire clip has a distinct purple color cast and heavy film grain, characteristic of old Super 8 film. Trees line the horizon under a hazy sky, and the grainy, low-resolution quality adds to the nostalgic, archival feel of this amateur aviation recording.

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: 122696976

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s aviation, rural field activity, or amateur California home-movie inserts involving a small light aircraft preparing to take off.
Period detail: The distant light plane, open grass field, and soft 8mm color support a late-1950s home-movie view, with the 1959 Yucaipa-area location taken from supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from across the field rather than staging the action, preserving a bystander view of a brief aviation moment.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small propeller plane, grassy field, low horizon trees, hazy sky, dark film-frame borders, and a purple-tinted contact-sheet scan.
Film character: Heavy grain, soft focus, slight handheld framing, and a strong purple color cast give the clip a clear original 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short aviation cutaway, rural transition, or memory beat before or after broader travel or family-film material.
Historical context: The clip shows small-scale recreational or private aviation in an open field setting, without enough visual detail to identify the aircraft model or exact airstrip.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable markings are visible, but aircraft identity, location claims, copyright, and any property context should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Search matches include 1959 8mm small plane in field, Yucaipa California home movie aviation, vintage light aircraft takeoff preparation, and rural airfield footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1959 Yucaipa or California scenes, then related vintage small-aircraft, rural field, or amateur aviation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Small propeller plane seen at a distance on a grassy field in the 1959 Yucaipa-area home-movie footage. — A small plane sits low across the field under a hazy sky.

Distant light aircraft remains on the grassy field in the supplied 1959 Yucaipa, California home-movie clip. — The plane is framed from far across the open grass.

Soft 8mm frame of a small plane across a rural field, with background trees and a strong purple tint. — The aircraft appears against a blurred rural horizon.

The small aircraft is still visible on the grassy field, captured in grainy 8mm with a dark frame edge. — A final distant view holds on the plane in the field.

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