Daffodil Hill California USA-1985: Yellow Daffodils Blooming Beside a Tree

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Year1985
Decade1980s
LocationDaffodil Hill, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1985 Daffodil Hill California

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Yellow Daffodils Blooming Beside a Tree — Clip Details

A vibrant cluster of yellow daffodils blooms beside a large tree trunk in this 1985 8mm home movie footage. The flowers, with their bright yellow petals and orange centers, stand out against the green foliage and textured bark. Shot on vintage 8mm film, the clip captures the natural beauty of spring with authentic film grain and warm color tones, evoking a sense of nostalgia and peaceful outdoor scenery.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-upExterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123037573

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 1554 · Super 8 · 3″ reel
Original reel label: uss mcluskey navy base
Reel-level year note: 1985
Reel-level location note: san diego california
Date: 1985 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: Daffodil Hill, 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 nature, springtime, garden, and California travel cutaways in documentary, education, museum, or commercial archive edits.
Period detail: The clip shows 8mm color home-movie views of daffodils by a mature tree, with no visible signage, people, vehicles, or built features to date the scene beyond the supplied 1985 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera lingers on flowers from a visitor or family-film perspective, moving from wider garden views toward closer daffodil details rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include yellow daffodil blooms, green leaves, a large textured tree trunk, garden soil, soft background foliage, and dark 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The footage has a vintage 8mm look with visible grain, soft focus, warm color, slight exposure variation, and contact-print framing that supports an archival home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a spring insert, garden cutaway, gentle transition, memory beat, or visual pause between broader California travel or family-reel scenes.
Historical context: The scene documents a leisure or sightseeing view of seasonal flowers at Daffodil Hill, emphasizing landscape and bloom detail rather than people or public activity.
Research note: No people, faces, brands, or interiors are visible, but copyright and any location or property permissions should still be checked against source and licensing records.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1985 8mm daffodils, Daffodil Hill California flowers, vintage home movie spring garden, yellow blooms by tree, and 1980s nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1985 Daffodil Hill or California garden material, then broader spring flower and nature home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1985 8mm frame from Daffodil Hill showing yellow daffodils clustered near a large tree trunk and garden soil. — A wider view of yellow daffodils blooming beside the base of a large tree.

1985 Daffodil Hill home-movie frame showing yellow daffodils, green leaves, and a textured tree trunk in the background. — Yellow daffodils stand in front of textured tree bark and low garden growth.

Close 1985 8mm view of yellow daffodil blossoms at Daffodil Hill, with leaves and shadowed garden detail behind them. — The camera moves closer to several yellow daffodil blossoms in the garden bed.

Tight 1985 8mm close-up from Daffodil Hill showing yellow daffodil flowers, orange centers, and surrounding green leaves. — A tight close-up isolates the daffodil flowers and their orange centers.

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