Volmer Yucaipa California USA-1959: Crop Dusting Airplane Two Seats Propeller

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

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Crop Dusting Airplane Two Seats Propeller — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from 1959 captures a white biplane with red stripes flying low over a rural landscape in Volmer Yucaipa, California. The aircraft, a two-seat crop duster with a prominent propeller, maneuvers through a hazy purple-tinged sky before descending toward a dirt field. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, with faint tree silhouettes visible below. This authentic home movie clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century aviation and agricultural practices.

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: 122697161

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 agricultural aviation requests needing authentic home-movie footage of a low-flying crop-dusting biplane in rural Southern California.
Period detail: The small biplane, open rural horizon, and 8mm color stock may show mid-century crop-dusting practice as documented by a nonprofessional camera in 1959.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries the unstaged value of a bystander filming an aircraft pass from the ground as it approaches and crosses a rural field.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white biplane with red striping, propeller nose, fixed landing gear, hazy purple sky, soft tree line, low field, and distant aircraft shape.
Film character: The scan shows 8mm grain, magenta-purple color shift, soft focus, slight motion blur, and dark frame edges that give the footage clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, rural aviation cutaway, agricultural transition, or memory beat before a broader sequence on farming or flight.
Historical context: The footage visually places small aircraft near rural land, suggesting crop-dusting or agricultural flight activity without identifying a specific farm or operator.
Research note: No people, logos, or clear private property are visible, but aircraft identification, location claims, copyright, and any property issues should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Search matches include 1959 8mm crop-dusting airplane, Yucaipa California biplane footage, rural agricultural aviation home movie, and low-flying propeller plane.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1959 Yucaipa or Volmer footage, and then with rural aviation, farming, or crop-dusting material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 8mm frame of a white and red biplane flying low in the sky near Volmer Yucaipa, California. — A small biplane crosses a hazy sky, framed by visible 8mm film borders.

White and red biplane passes above blurred trees in 1959 rural Yucaipa home-movie footage. — The aircraft flies low over a soft tree line in a color-shifted 8mm frame.

Closer 8mm view of the low-flying biplane against a hazy rural background in Volmer Yucaipa. — The biplane moves across frame with its fixed gear visible below the fuselage.

Low pass by a white and red biplane near a rural field, with a distant aircraft-like shape below in the 1959 footage. — The biplane flies just above the field line, with a faint distant aircraft shape below.

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