Palm Desert California-1953: A View Of A Brightly Coloured Shrub And Tropical

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationPalm Desert, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 California

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A View Of A Brightly Coloured Shrub And Tropical — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched street scene in Palm Desert, California. Lush palm trees line the road, their fronds swaying gently in the breeze, while a row of brightly colored shrubs with pink and red blossoms adds a vibrant splash of color. The footage, framed by the classic 8mm film border, shows a quiet residential area with houses and a paved road under a bright blue sky. The warm, slightly faded colors and natural film grain evoke a strong sense of mid-century Americana and nostalgic summer days.

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: 123349297

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: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 1398 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1953
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1953 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: Palm Desert, 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 1950s Palm Desert or Southern California home-movie edits needing a brief residential street cutaway with palms and flowering roadside shrubs.
Period detail: The 8mm color footage may show mid-century residential landscaping, paved roadside edges, overhead utility lines, and low homes partly hidden by planting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the street from a casual home-movie position, lingering on palms and blossoms rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include palm crowns, pink flowering shrubs, a paved road, low houses, overhead wires, dark film borders, and a small roadside sign.
Film character: The clip has saturated but slightly faded 8mm color, soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet framing that preserves the physical film edge.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a sunny establishing insert, a residential transition, or a memory beat within Palm Desert and postwar California sequences.
Historical context: The scene gives visual context for a quiet landscaped desert community street without supporting claims about named landmarks or specific local events.
Research note: Rights review should note reported people and logos, plus possible house exteriors; copyright, likeness, trademark, and property issues require separate assessment.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1953 8mm Palm Desert street, 1950s California palms, flowering shrub roadside, and vintage residential home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Palm Desert material, then other 1953 local street views, then broader 1950s California landscaping or roadside cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Palm Desert home-movie frame showing palms, pink roadside shrubs, pavement, and low homes partly obscured by vegetation. — Flowering shrubs and palms line a bright residential roadside.

1953 Palm Desert frame with palm trees, bright flowering shrubs, a paved street, partially visible homes, and a small roadside sign. — A small sign appears near the shrubs along the palm-lined street.

Palm Desert home-movie view of tall palm fronds and flowering shrubs, with house details partly visible behind the planting. — The camera holds on dense roadside planting beneath tall palms.

1953 Palm Desert frame showing palms above bright roadside shrubs, with overhead utility lines crossing the sky. — Overhead lines cross the sky above palms and flowering shrubs.

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