Mendocino California USA-1980: Grass Field With Cypress Trees

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Year1980
Decade1980s
LocationMendocino, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1980 Mendocino California

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Grass Field With Cypress Trees — Clip Details

Mendocino California USA-1980: A vintage 8mm home movie clip captures a sun-drenched grassy field with a line of dark, wind-swept cypress trees silhouetted against a pale blue sky. The camera pans slowly across the landscape, revealing dry golden grass and small mounds of earth in the foreground. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, warm color tones, and natural light, evoking a nostalgic, rural atmosphere from the early 1980s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123108947

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 1466 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: cajon vs arlington
Reel-level year note: 1980
Reel-level location note: el cajon, california
Date: 1980 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: Mendocino, 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 California landscape requests needing rural coastal atmosphere, natural cutaways, or quiet environmental inserts from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frames show analog 8mm color, soft exposure, dry grass, and wind-shaped cypress-like trees; the 1980 date is supported by supplied clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged traveler or family-film perspective, with a slow pan across open grassland rather than composed scenic coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include golden dry grass, low earth mounds, a dark tree line, pale blue sky, frame-edge shadows, and soft handheld motion.
Film character: The footage carries warm 8mm color, visible grain, slight softness, gate-edge darkening, and natural daylight exposure typical of scanned home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a landscape cutaway, coastal-rural transition, memory beat, or quiet insert between more specific Mendocino scenes.
Historical context: The scene records open grassy terrain and wind-shaped trees in Mendocino as seen by a home-movie camera, without visible people, vehicles, or signage.
Research note: No people, logos, or private-property details are visible, but copyright, location verification, and any broader land-use permissions still require review.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1980 Mendocino 8mm landscape, California cypress trees, dry grass field home movie, and vintage coastal nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then other Mendocino 1980 material, then broader California coastal landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1980 Mendocino home-movie frame showing golden grass and a dark wind-shaped tree line beneath pale blue sky. — Golden grass and dark coastal trees fill the opening landscape frame.

Mendocino landscape frame from 1980 with dry grass, low mounded ground, and cypress-like trees silhouetted against sky. — The pan reveals low mounds in the grass before a dense tree line.

1980 Mendocino 8mm frame with wind-shaped trees, dry grass foreground, and soft handheld film texture. — Dark trees stretch across the horizon above the dry field.

Closing Mendocino landscape frame showing dry grass, low mounded terrain, and a dark cypress-like tree line in 1980 home-movie footage. — The landscape holds on dry grass and a dark tree line under clear sky.

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