Volmer Yucaipa California USA-1969: Plane Being Built

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationVolmer Yucaipa, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 California

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Plane Being Built — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from 1969 captures a homemade aircraft under construction at Volmer in Yucaipa, California. The clip focuses on the tail section of a custom-built plane with the registration N2228, showing its distinctive white tail fin and fuselage against a dark, possibly nighttime, backdrop. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a purple-blue tint, with a red brick wall visible on the left. This authentic home movie footage offers a rare glimpse into mid-century aviation hobbyism and DIY engineering.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122708463

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 1343 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: #9,easter,grandma granpa visit,spring rainbow,opening day,little league,baseball
Reel-level year note: 1969
Reel-level location note: clarendon hills, illinois, woodland hills, california
Date: 1969 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 1960s aviation, amateur aircraft construction, and California home-movie inserts needing a close view of a homemade plane tail section.
Period detail: The visible tail number, fabric-like tail surfaces, brick wall, and saturated 8mm color may show a late-1960s homebuilt aircraft setting in Yucaipa, California.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a quiet observer's perspective, lingering on construction details rather than staged action or a formal aviation demonstration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white aircraft tail fin, fuselage with N2228 marking, dark doorway or garage area, red brick wall, roof edge, ground shadows, and film frame borders.
Film character: The scan shows pronounced 8mm grain, purple-blue color shift, soft focus, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet framing that support its physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, research insert, or memory beat for DIY aviation, hobby engineering, or small-aircraft construction sequences.
Historical context: The clip visually connects aviation hobbyism with a domestic or workshop-like setting, without showing people or enough context to identify the builder.
Research note: No people are visible, but the aircraft registration marking is identifiable, so copyright, aircraft identity, and any property-related uses should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 8mm home movie aircraft construction, Yucaipa California homebuilt plane tail, and vintage amateur aviation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with other 1969 Yucaipa or California footage, then with clips about homebuilt aircraft, workshops, and transportation hobbies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Yucaipa home-movie frame showing a white homebuilt aircraft tail section with partial N2228 marking and dark background. — A close view of the plane tail and partial registration marking beside a dark doorway.

1969 Yucaipa frame showing the aircraft tail section more clearly, with N2228 visible along the fuselage and a white fin above. — The N2228 marking is visible along the fuselage beneath the white tail surface.

1969 Yucaipa home-movie frame with the plane tail, N2228 marking, red brick wall, and shadowed workshop area. — The camera shifts to include the red brick wall beside the aircraft tail section.

1969 Yucaipa frame showing the aircraft tail and N2228 marking beside brickwork, with strong purple-blue 8mm color shift. — The final frame holds on the marked tail section with brickwork at the left edge.

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