Laguna Beach California USA-1979: Woman Changing Car Tire

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Year1979
Decade1970s
LocationLaguna Beach, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1979 California

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Woman Changing Car Tire — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from Laguna Beach, California, in 1979 captures a woman in a blue shirt and pants changing a tire on a classic American car. The footage, shot on Super 8 film, shows the woman bent over the rear wheel of a station wagon with its trunk open, set against a suburban street with other cars and houses. The clip features authentic film grain, slight color shifts, and a nostalgic, candid quality typical of personal home movies from the era.

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: 123023136

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: Yes
Minors 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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1979 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Laguna Beach, California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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: 1970s Southern California home-movie footage for edits needing everyday roadside car maintenance and suburban street life.
Period detail: The cars, clothing, painted street markings, and film stock color may show late-1970s American suburban visual details.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged moment of a woman bending over a rear wheel while changing a tire beside an open trunk.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a station wagon, open trunk, rear wheel, woman in blue, yellow street lettering, parked cars, houses, and palm trunks.
Film character: The 8mm image has visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, color drift, and contact-sheet frame edges typical of scanned home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, cutaway, or memory beat for everyday car trouble, travel interruption, or 1970s domestic life.
Historical context: The scene gives visual context for informal roadside problem solving on a residential street in Laguna Beach, without documenting a named event.
Research note: People and vehicle branding or model identifiers appear visible, so likeness, trademark, and location context should be reviewed separately from copyright.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1979 Laguna Beach home movie, woman changing tire, 1970s station wagon, and Super 8 roadside car repair.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Laguna Beach 1979 footage, then related clips of 1970s cars, streets, travel, or household errands.

Still Frames From This Clip

A mostly obscured 8mm frame from the contact sheet, showing a pale surface and dark film edge with no clear subject visible. — Obscured opening frame with film edge and little visible scene detail.

Laguna Beach residential street scene with houses, palm trunks, parked cars, and a gold car entering the right side of the frame. — Residential street view with period cars and houses before the tire-change close view.

In 1979 Laguna Beach home-movie footage, a woman in blue bends near the rear wheel of a station wagon with the trunk open on a street. — Woman working at the rear wheel of a station wagon with yellow street lettering beneath her.

The woman remains bent over the station wagon's rear wheel, with the open trunk, car emblem area, and painted street lettering visible. — Close roadside moment as the woman continues changing the rear tire beside the open trunk.

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