California USA-1971: A Rotating Wooden Tribal Mask in 8mm Film

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Year1971
Decade1970s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1971 California

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A Rotating Wooden Tribal Mask in 8mm Film — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie clip from 1971 captures a detailed wooden mask, likely from a Native American tribe, hanging against a dark background. The mask features intricate carvings with stylized eyes, a prominent nose, and a wide mouth, characteristic of indigenous ceremonial art. The footage, shot on 8mm film, shows the mask rotating slowly, revealing its craftsmanship and weathered texture under focused lighting. The grainy, slightly faded quality of the Super 8 footage adds to its nostalgic, archival feel, making it ideal for documentaries, cultural studies, or historical content.

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: 123055013

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: 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 1758 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: III-02,sacto state
Reel-level year note: 1971
Reel-level location note: california,sacramento
Date: 1971 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: 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: 1971 8mm footage supports archival requests for close-up artifact inserts, museum-style cultural sequences, or documentary cutaways about collecting, display, and Indigenous-influenced visual material.
Period detail: The clip may show an early 1970s home-movie study of a carved wooden mask, with focused display lighting and dark backdrop rather than a wider location view.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the deliberate home-movie observation: the camera stays close as the suspended mask slowly turns for inspection.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a carved wooden mask, stylized eyes, raised nose, open mouth forms, ear-like side shapes, hanging support, dark background, and uneven film illumination.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft grain, slight color fade, high-contrast spotlighting, and minor exposure variation that place the object within a physical-film record.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a cultural-artifact insert, contemplative transition, research cutaway, or brief memory beat between broader 1970s home-movie scenes.
Historical context: The footage documents how a carved mask was filmed as an object of interest in a private or informal setting, without proving the mask's maker, tribe, ceremony, or original use.
Research note: No people, brands, or private property are visible, but cultural identification, object provenance, copyright in the film, and any museum or community sensitivities should be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1971 8mm wooden mask footage, vintage home movie carved mask, California artifact close-up, and Native American ceremonial mask if that attribution is verified.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then California or 1971 home-movie material, then broader clips of masks, folk art, museums, collections, or cultural artifacts.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 8mm frame showing a carved wooden mask from the front, lit against a dark backdrop in California metadata context. — The mask faces forward, showing stylized eyes, carved brow lines, nose, and mouth details.

The rotating mask turns in profile, revealing the side carving and protruding facial features.

1971 8mm frame showing the mask at a slight angle, with carved facial lines and uneven spotlighting visible. — The mask rotates back toward the camera, with grain and highlight falloff across the carved surface.

1971 8mm frame showing the carved mask nearly front-on, with one side brightly lit and the other in shadow. — The final frame holds on the mask's face, emphasizing the carved eyes and asymmetrical light.

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