Big Sur California USA-1980: Large Tree Chopped in Forest

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

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Large Tree Chopped in Forest — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Big Sur, California, 1980, showing a large tree trunk lying on the forest floor with a clean, angled cut at its base. The scene is bathed in a distinct purple and sepia-toned color cast typical of aged film, with pine needles and branches scattered around. The camera remains static, capturing the aftermath of the tree being felled, possibly by a man or animal, in a sunlit woodland setting. The image exhibits natural film grain and slight color fading, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel.

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: 122859622

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1980s environmental, forestry, or California nature edits needing a brief home-movie cutaway of a felled tree in Big Sur woodland.
Period detail: The 8mm look, purple color shift, and static framing support the 1980 home-movie dating, while the visible scene itself is a forest floor with no modern identifiers.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the cut trunk without staging or people, giving the clip the quiet evidentiary feel of a traveler or family member recording woodland aftermath.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an angled cut tree trunk, stump base, pine needles, cones, thin branches, forest debris, bright sun patches, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: Aged 8mm texture shows pronounced grain, soft focus, purple-sepia fading, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet frame edges that reinforce its physical-film origin.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a cutaway, transition, or memory beat for logging, storm damage, forest change, rural land use, or California landscape sequences.
Historical context: The clip documents a small visual trace of tree removal or damage in a Big Sur woodland setting without showing the cause, workers, tools, or surrounding property.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or music are visible or flagged, but copyright status and any location or property permissions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Research matches include 1980 Big Sur 8mm felled tree, vintage California forest floor, home movie chopped trunk, and archival woodland cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Big Sur or 1980 California nature footage, then broader forest, logging, storm-damage, or rural landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1980 Big Sur 8mm frame showing a cut tree trunk and stump amid pine needles, branches, and sunlit forest debris. — A cut tree trunk lies across the woodland floor with the stump base visible below.

Static Big Sur home-movie frame of a felled trunk with a clean angled cut, scattered needles, branches, and a pine cone nearby. — The camera holds on the cut trunk, stump, and surrounding forest debris.

1980 Big Sur forest frame with the trunk crossing diagonally above a stump, with pine cones, needles, and twiggy ground cover. — A diagonal trunk dominates the frame above the stump and pine-covered ground.

Close 8mm view of the felled Big Sur tree trunk, showing bark texture, cut base area, pine cones, branches, and faded purple color cast. — The final frame moves closer to the trunk surface and nearby pine cones on the forest floor.

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