Palm Springs California-1953: California Coastline with Houses and Ocean

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

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California Coastline with Houses and Ocean — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping view of the California coastline from Palm Springs. The camera pans across a sun-drenched hillside dotted with white houses and red-tiled roofs, revealing a lush green lawn and a sandy construction area. In the distance, the Pacific Ocean stretches beneath a clear blue sky, with waves breaking along the shore. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, saturated colors, and a nostalgic, sun-bleached quality characteristic of mid-century home movies.

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: 123350188

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 Springs, 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: 1950s 8mm coastal-view footage suited for documentary inserts, travel-era context, or mid-century California landscape coverage.
Period detail: The red-tiled roofs, hillside lawns, open coastal slopes, and saturated 8mm color may show a mid-century California seaside residential setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint, with the camera surveying scenery from an elevated position rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include hillside homes, red tile roofs, green lawn, pale earthworks, scrubby foreground brush, cliffs, ocean, and breaking surf.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, soft focus, handheld framing, saturated blue and green color, and slight exposure variation as archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, scenic transition, coastal cutaway, or memory beat in a 1950s travel sequence.
Historical context: The view suggests leisure or residential development along a California coastal hillside, without enough detail to identify a specific neighborhood or landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but visible homes and land should still be reviewed for property and copyright context.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1950s 8mm California coast view, vintage home movie hillside houses, seaside cliffs, and mid-century coastal travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1953 California coastal views, and finally with broader 1950s travel and seaside landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1950s 8mm frame of a green hillside lawn, pale earth, and red-roofed houses beneath rocky coastal slopes. — Elevated view across a lawn and hillside homes toward rocky terrain.

1950s 8mm frame showing red-roofed hillside houses, a green lawn, pale graded earth, and rocky slopes in the distance. — The camera looks across hillside homes and a manicured lawn below rocky terrain.

1950s 8mm coastal view with hillside homes, green lawn, pale earth, steep cliffs, and ocean surf beyond. — The pan opens toward the coastline, revealing cliffs and surf beyond the hillside homes.

1950s 8mm frame of a coastal hillside with red-roofed homes, green lawn, cliffs, and Pacific surf in the distance. — A wider coastal view shows hillside property in front of cliffs and breaking waves.

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