Sacramento California USA-1969: Round Design Water Sprinkle Looks Like An Umbrella

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

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Round Design Water Sprinkle Looks Like An Umbrella — Clip Details

A close-up view of a round, metallic design resembling an umbrella or sprinkler head, captured on 8mm film in 1969. The footage shows water droplets and a wet surface under a cool blue tint, with visible film grain and slight camera movement. The scene evokes a nostalgic, vintage home movie aesthetic, focusing on abstract textures and reflections in a monochromatic, retro style.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123048465

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: 1969 Sacramento 8mm footage suited to requests for abstract water details, home-movie textures, or mid-century visual cutaways.
Period detail: The cool tint, contact-print feel, and small-gauge grain support a late-1960s home-movie context, though the object itself has few era-specific clues.
Home-movie behavior: The close, searching camera view gives the clip the value of an unstaged home-movie observation of water, reflection, and household or garden hardware.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include wet reflective material, radial metal rods, nail-like heads, dark frame edges, blue cast, film grain, and slight reframing.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, blue exposure bias, gate edges, and minor frame instability that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an abstract insert, watery transition, tactile cutaway, or brief memory beat within a home-movie or design sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents a small observed surface detail rather than a public event, offering context for everyday amateur filming and visual curiosity.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but copyright status and object or property context should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1969 Sacramento 8mm water sprinkler detail, vintage home movie wet metal close-up, and abstract blue Super 8 texture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other Sacramento 1969 material, then related water, rain, garden, or abstract texture clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Sacramento 8mm frame showing a wet reflective surface with radial metal rods, nail-like heads, grain, and black frame borders. — Wet, blue-tinted surface with radial metal details near the edge of the 8mm frame.

1969 Sacramento 8mm frame with a wet surface, umbrella-like radial metal detail, blue cast, speckling, and soft focus. — Radial metal detail and droplets on a wet reflective surface, tinted blue by the film scan.

1969 Sacramento 8mm frame showing two dark metal strips across wet reflective material, with grain, blur, and visible gate edge. — The camera reframes closer on dark metal strips over the wet blue surface.

1969 Sacramento 8mm frame of diagonal metal strips and droplets on a wet reflective surface, with blue tint and right-side frame border. — Diagonal metal elements and water reflections fill the final blue-tinted 8mm frame.

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