California-1953: Salton Sea Sign and Red-Tiled Homes

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

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Salton Sea Sign and Red-Tiled Homes — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a roadside informational sign at Salton Sea, California. The sign, featuring a map and text about the area's elevation and geography, stands on a sandy lot with a thatched roof structure and the blue water of the sea in the background. The footage transitions to a view of residential homes with distinctive red-tiled roofs nestled among green hills, showcasing mid-century architecture in California. The film exhibits natural grain and color saturation typical of 8mm home movies from the era.

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: 123350077

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: 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Southern California travel, desert resort, or Salton Sea area sequences needing brief visitor-shot 8mm exterior views.
Period detail: The Salton Sea information sign, red clay tile roofs, and saturated 8mm color may show mid-century California roadside and residential visual cues.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a tourist home-movie viewpoint, pausing on an informational sign before cutting to a nearby residential hillside view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a Salton Sea sign with map, blue water, sandy ground, shade structure, red-tiled roofs, stucco homes, shrubs, and hills.
Film character: The footage carries dense 8mm grain, slight softness, strong color, gate edges, and handheld framing consistent with scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short location insert, travel transition, or memory beat between Salton Sea geography and Palm Springs area housing.
Historical context: The frames visually connect desert-region tourism signage with residential architecture and landscaped hillsides in Southern California.
Research note: No people are visible, but sign text and residential exteriors may still require copyright, property, or location review depending on use.
Research search match: Researcher searches might include 1950s 8mm Salton Sea sign, Palm Springs red tile homes, California desert home movie, and mid-century roadside travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1953 Palm Springs or Salton Sea material, then broader Southern California travel and residential exteriors.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 8mm frame of a Salton Sea informational sign with a map, sandy foreground, shade roof, and blue water behind it. — Roadside Salton Sea sign with map and water visible behind the display.

1953 8mm view of the Salton Sea display sign showing a map outline, text blocks, posts, and distant blue water. — The Salton Sea sign fills the frame, with map and text panels partly legible.

1953 8mm frame of Palm Springs area homes with red tile roofs, pale walls, landscaping, and hills in the background. — Residential hillside view with red-tiled roofs, gardens, and a mountain backdrop.

1953 8mm view of Palm Springs area residences with red tile roofs, garden plantings, and rugged hills beyond. — Sunlit homes with clay tile roofs sit among greenery below the hills.

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