Volmer Yucaipa California USA-1959: A Small Prop Plane Landing On A Grass Runway

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

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A Small Prop Plane Landing On A Grass Runway — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1959 showing a small white biplane with red accents landing on a grassy runway. The aircraft descends low over a rural airfield, kicking up dust as it touches down. The scene is captured with a distinct purple color cast and grainy texture characteristic of Super 8 film. Trees and distant buildings line the horizon under a hazy sky. The camera remains stationary, observing the plane's approach and landing sequence. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century aviation and personal filmmaking.

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: 122697187

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: 1950s home-movie aviation footage for edits needing a small prop plane landing at a rural California airfield.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century light aviation, with a small white plane, grass runway, low buildings, and open field edges visible in the frames.
Home-movie behavior: The stationary amateur camera watches the landing from the field edge, preserving an unstaged observer's view rather than a formal aviation record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small white prop plane, red fuselage accents, grass runway, dusty airstrip surface, trees, low buildings, hazy sky, and dark film borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan has coarse grain, soft focus, purple color shift, gate borders, and slight exposure haze that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an aviation insert, rural-airfield cutaway, transition beat, or period memory detail in a mid-century sequence.
Historical context: The footage places small-aircraft activity in an open rural airfield setting, with sparse buildings and trees suggesting local recreational aviation.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but aircraft identification, location, copyright, and property considerations may still need review.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1959 8mm plane landing, Yucaipa California airfield, small prop plane on grass runway, and vintage home movie aviation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Volmer Yucaipa 1959 material, then related 1950s aviation, rural runway, and small-aircraft home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Yucaipa-area home-movie frame showing a small white prop plane low over a grass runway, with trees and a hazy sky behind it. — A small prop plane descends toward the grassy runway.

1959 Yucaipa-area frame of a small white plane just above or on a grass runway, with low buildings and trees in the distance. — The plane nears touchdown at the rural airfield.

1959 Yucaipa-area home-movie frame showing the small prop plane rolling along the grass runway after landing. — The aircraft rolls out across the grass airstrip.

1959 Yucaipa-area frame with the small plane continuing along the grass runway, partly near the edge of the shot. — The plane continues its rollout past distant airfield buildings.

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