Big Sur California USA-1980: Tall Trees Surrounding A Sunlit Field Recorded With

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

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Tall Trees Surrounding A Sunlit Field Recorded With — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Big Sur, California, 1980, showing a serene park landscape with tall evergreen and deciduous trees surrounding a sunlit grassy field. The camera pans slowly across the scene, capturing dappled sunlight filtering through dense foliage and casting shifting shadows on the lawn. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural motion blur, evoking a nostalgic, sun-drenched summer day. The dark frame borders suggest viewing through a projector or vintage camera.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122857339

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 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1980s Big Sur home-movie nature footage suited to documentary edits needing a brief sunlit park or wooded-field cutaway.
Period detail: The clip may show late 20th-century amateur travel filming, with visible clues limited to color 8mm texture, open lawn, and mature trees.
Home-movie behavior: The slow pan reads as a visitor's unstaged record of a quiet outdoor landscape rather than a composed commercial scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tall evergreen and deciduous trees, a grassy field, dappled sunlight, shadowed branches, pale sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, soft focus, slight color fading, handheld drift, and projector-like borders that support its archival home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet nature insert, location transition, memory beat, or brief establishing cutaway for a California travel sequence.
Historical context: The frames suggest recreational observation of a wooded public landscape in Big Sur, without visible signage or landmarks confirming a precise site.
Research note: People are flagged in the clip metadata, so likeness review is advised even though no clear faces are visible in these stills; copyright and property rights remain separate checks.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1980 Big Sur 8mm trees, California home movie park landscape, sunlit field vintage footage, and Super 8 wooded lawn cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Big Sur or 1980 California outdoor footage, then broader tree, park, and travel-home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1980 Big Sur home-movie frame showing trees, foreground branches, lawn, pale sky, and dark 8mm frame edges. — Trees and overhanging branches frame a sunlit grassy field.

1980 Big Sur outdoor frame with a sunlit lawn, mature trees, bright sky, and visible dark 8mm border areas. — A bright lawn sits beneath dense trees as the camera pans across the park.

1980 Big Sur home-movie still showing a grassy park area, clustered trees, foreground branch, and soft 8mm color. — The pan continues across a shaded cluster of trees and open grass.

1980 Big Sur frame with sunlit grass, mature trees, dark foliage at right, pale sky, and soft 8mm exposure. — Sunlit grass and mature trees fill the final frame of the short landscape pan.

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