Volmer Yucaipa California USA-1959: Red And White Airplane Taking Off In A Field

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

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Red And White Airplane Taking Off In A Field — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1959 showing a red and white biplane taxiing and taking off from a grassy airfield in Yucaipa, California. The aircraft, a classic single-engine plane with a white fuselage and red accents, moves across the field under a hazy purple-tinged sky. The grainy, color-shifted film quality and soft focus capture the nostalgic feel of mid-century amateur aviation footage. Trees and distant buildings line the horizon as the plane gains speed and lifts into the air.

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: 122697028

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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: Supports 1950s aviation, recreation, and Southern California home-movie requests needing a short 8mm shot of a small airplane taxiing and taking off from a grass field.
Period detail: The small biplane, grass airfield, distant low buildings, and 8mm color reversal look may show mid-century recreational flying in Yucaipa, California.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from the edge of the field as the airplane passes, giving the clip an unstaged spectator view of a local flight activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red-and-white biplane, open grassy field, runway-like ground, hazy tree line, distant buildings, pilots or riders, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, visible grain, purple color shift, uneven exposure, and slight handheld framing consistent with aged 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief aviation insert, regional memory beat, transportation cutaway, or transition into 1950s leisure and airfield scenes.
Historical context: The scene documents small-aircraft activity in a rural or semi-rural field setting without enough visible detail to identify the aircraft model or event.
Research note: People appear aboard or near the airplane, so likeness review may be needed; no visible logos are evident, while copyright and reuse permissions remain separate checks.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1950s 8mm airplane takeoff, Yucaipa California airfield home movie, red and white biplane, and vintage small plane footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1959 Yucaipa material, then broader home-movie aviation, airfield, and recreational flying footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Yucaipa home-movie frame showing a red-and-white biplane on grass with a hazy tree line behind it. — A small biplane sits or taxis on the grassy airfield at the start of the shot.

The biplane taxis across the Yucaipa grass airfield, with seated people visible in the open cockpit area. — The aircraft moves across the field, its red stripe and white wings visible in profile.

A 1959 8mm frame shows the biplane moving along the field with distant buildings and a hazy horizon behind it. — The biplane continues along the grass, with low buildings appearing near the horizon.

The red-and-white biplane continues its takeoff run across the Yucaipa field in soft, purple-shifted 8mm color. — The airplane passes in side view near the end of the clip, still low over or on the field.

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