Palm Desert California-1953: Salton Sea Sign on Beach with Picnic Table

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

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Salton Sea Sign on Beach with Picnic Table — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a weathered informational sign for the Salton Sea, noting it is 241 feet below sea level. The sign stands on a sandy beach with a picnic table and chair nearby, under a bright blue sky. In the background, the calm waters of the Salton Sea stretch to a distant wooden pier. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking mid-century American vacation nostalgia. This archival clip offers authentic period detail for documentaries, historical content, or retro-themed projects.

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: 123349935

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 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: This 1953 8mm home-movie clip helps document mid-century California travel and Salton Sea leisure geography for documentary inserts, educational programs, and archive-led location sequences.
Period detail: Visible period clues include the painted roadside-style Salton Sea information sign, simple beach furniture, saturated 8mm color, and an informal visitor viewpoint consistent with early-1950s vacation filming.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the value of a visitor-shot landmark record, pausing on the sign and nearby shoreline rather than staging people or activity.
What appears in frame: The frames show a Salton Sea sign reading 241 feet below sea level, sandy beach ground, blue water, a small chair, a picnic table, a wooden pier or railing, and bright sky.
Film character: The clip carries an 8mm physical-film texture with soft focus, visible grain, saturated blues, slight handheld framing, and contact-print edge density.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a place-setting cutaway, travel-memory insert, transition into Salton Sea material, or quiet contextual beat in a mid-century California sequence.
Historical context: The sign and shoreline setting visually place the Salton Sea as a roadside or beachside destination in a home-movie travel context without showing visitors on camera.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, signage text, location access, and any property implications should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful researcher searches include 1953 8mm Salton Sea sign, vintage California beach home movie, Palm Desert area travel footage, and mid-century Salton Sea shoreline cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1953 Palm Desert or Salton Sea footage, then broader mid-century California vacation and roadside-landmark material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 8mm frame showing a Salton Sea sign marked 241 feet below sea level on a sandy California shoreline, with water and a small chair in the background. — Salton Sea sign on the beach with water beyond.

1953 8mm frame of the Salton Sea beach sign, with the shoreline, a small chair, and a wooden structure visible under bright daylight. — Beachside Salton Sea marker with chair and water behind.

1953 8mm frame showing the Salton Sea informational sign in front of beach sand, with a picnic table, chair, and blue water visible to the side. — Salton Sea sign with picnic table near the shoreline.

1953 8mm frame of the Salton Sea sign on a sandy beach, with a picnic table, chair, wooden shoreline structure, and blue water behind it. — Informational sign at the Salton Sea beach area.

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