Sacramento California USA-1969: Sprinkler Sticks Spraying Water Around And The

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationSacramento, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 California

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Sprinkler Sticks Spraying Water Around And The — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a close-up of a sprinkler system spraying water in a residential yard. The footage shows multiple black sprinkler heads mounted on poles, releasing arcs of water that glisten in the sunlight. The scene is bathed in a cool blue-purple tint, characteristic of aged Super 8 film, with visible grain and slight lens flare. Water droplets scatter in the air, creating a dynamic, nostalgic summer atmosphere. The camera remains steady, focusing on the rhythmic spray and the texture of the wet ground. This archival clip evokes a sense of mid-century Americana and everyday life in Sacramento, California.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-up
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123048398

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 1343 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: #9,easter,grandma granpa visit,spring rainbow,opening day,little league,baseball
Reel-level year note: 1969
Reel-level location note: clarendon hills, illinois, woodland hills, california
Date: 1969 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: Sacramento, 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 1960s home-movie requests needing a short residential yard cutaway of lawn sprinklers, summer water use, or everyday suburban texture.
Period detail: The close framing offers few date clues beyond the 1969 8mm metadata, with simple black sprinkler stakes and aged color suggesting ordinary mid-century yard equipment.
Home-movie behavior: The footage values an unstaged household detail, watching water spray across a yard rather than presenting a formal event or posed subject.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include black sprinkler stakes, angled water spray, wet ground texture, dark frame edges, blue-purple film color, and scattered droplets.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows coarse grain, cool shifted color, soft focus, gate edges, and slight exposure variation that give the clip its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or sensory cutaway for heat, summer lawns, domestic routines, or Sacramento home life.
Historical context: The clip documents a small residential outdoor routine, showing sprinkler use as part of everyday yard care without visible people or identifiable property details.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright status and any property-related permissions should still be checked against source records and intended use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1969 8mm home movie sprinkler, Sacramento yard watering, vintage lawn sprinkler close-up, and 1960s summer water spray.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Sacramento 1969 home-movie material, then broader 1960s residential yard or summer cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Sacramento 8mm frame showing black sprinkler stakes and arcing water spray over a blue-purple wet yard surface. — Sprinkler stakes spray water across the yard in a close 8mm view.

Close 1969 Sacramento yard view with sprinkler poles, dark heads, and diagonal spray crossing the aged 8mm frame. — Diagonal water spray crosses the frame from several sprinkler heads.

1969 Sacramento 8mm still with wet ground texture, partial sprinkler stakes, and scattered spray softened by grain and color shift. — Water spray and wet ground texture dominate the close-up frame.

Final 1969 Sacramento 8mm frame showing sprinkler stakes at the lower edge with water spray arcing across a wet yard surface. — Sprinkler stakes continue spraying across the damp yard surface.

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