Big Sur California USA-1980: Tall Rocky Mountain With Patches Of Grass Erected

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Year1980
Decade1980s
LocationBig Sur, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1980 Big Sur California

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Tall Rocky Mountain With Patches Of Grass Erected — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1980 capturing a towering rocky cliff face in Big Sur, California. The rugged mountain displays distinct stratified layers of gray and tan rock, with patches of green shrubbery clinging to its slopes under a clear blue sky. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and subtle camera movement, characteristic of handheld Super 8 footage. Driftwood rests at the base of the cliff, emphasizing the coastal environment. This authentic archival clip evokes nostalgia and is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or retro-themed projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Handheld
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122851900

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 1466 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: cajon vs arlington
Reel-level year note: 1980
Reel-level location note: el cajon, california
Date: 1980 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: Big Sur, 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 archival requests for 1980s California coastal landscape footage, especially documentary cutaways, travel history inserts, or environmental context without identifiable people.
Period detail: The frames may show a 1980 home-movie view of Big Sur cliffs, with the era mainly indicated by the 8mm film format, color response, grain, and handheld framing rather than dated objects.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on the cliff face from below without staged action, narration, or visible tourists.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a stratified rocky cliff, tan upper bluff, gray lower rock, green shrubs, clear blue sky, pale beach edge, driftwood, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, slight softness, saturated blue sky, uneven exposure, and handheld drift that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, coastal geology cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition within a California landscape sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a quiet coastal cliff view as seen by a home-movie camera, offering landscape context without visible development, traffic, or public activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable marks are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any location or property considerations for their project.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1980s 8mm Big Sur cliff, California coastal rock face home movie, vintage Super 8 landscape cutaway, and rugged seaside bluff footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel coastal views, then other 1980 Big Sur or California landscape clips, then broader vintage 8mm nature and shoreline footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1980 Big Sur home-movie frame showing a layered rocky cliff with green shrubs, blue sky, and dark film borders. — Layered cliff face with scrub vegetation below a clear sky.

1980 Big Sur frame with a rugged layered bluff, scattered shrub growth, blue sky, and visible 8mm frame edges. — Rugged cliff strata and shrubs fill the frame.

1980 Big Sur home-movie view of a rocky cliff with scrub vegetation, pale shore edge, and driftwood at the base. — Cliff face and driftwood at the base of the bluff.

1980 Big Sur frame showing a rugged stratified cliff, shrub-covered slopes, blue sky, and driftwood near the lower edge. — Shrub-covered coastal bluff with driftwood below.

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