Los Angeles California USA-1962: Aerial View Of Illuminated Amusement Park At Dusk

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationLos Angeles, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 California

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Aerial View Of Illuminated Amusement Park At Dusk — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1962 captures an aerial view of an amusement park in Los Angeles, California, at dusk. The footage shows illuminated rides and attractions, including a large wooden roller coaster, with colorful lights glowing against the darkening sky. The grainy, slightly faded quality of the Super 8 film adds to the nostalgic atmosphere, offering a glimpse into mid-century American leisure and entertainment. The camera pans slowly across the park, revealing the layout of the rides and the surrounding area.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Aerial
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123712875

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 1236 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: disneyland
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1962 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: Los Angeles, 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 1960s Los Angeles leisure, amusement-park, dusk, or mid-century recreation sequences needing authentic 8mm aerial or elevated home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frames show illuminated rides, a large wooden roller coaster, flags, and dusk lighting that support a mid-century amusement-park setting from the supplied 1962 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot elevated viewpoint, observing the park layout and lights without staged action or identifiable people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wooden roller coaster, lit ride structures, flagpoles, dark paved grounds, small attraction booths, and distant water or horizon lines.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, dusk underexposure, and slight frame instability consistent with home-movie film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, transition, or memory beat for amusement parks, California leisure, or evening entertainment.
Historical context: The view records amusement-park lighting and ride architecture as seen by a home-movie camera, offering social context for public recreation in the early 1960s.
Research note: No faces, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright, location, and property implications for their intended use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1962 Los Angeles amusement park 8mm, vintage roller coaster at dusk, illuminated rides, and mid-century California leisure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with 1962 Los Angeles material, then with broader amusement-park, night lights, or leisure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Los Angeles home-movie frame showing a dusky amusement park from above, with lit attractions, flags, and a large wooden roller coaster. — Elevated view across lit rides and flags toward a wooden roller coaster at dusk.

Elevated 1962 Los Angeles amusement-park view with lit midway structures, flags, and a wooden roller coaster silhouetted in dusk light. — Lit midway structures and flags appear below a large wooden roller coaster.

1962 Los Angeles 8mm frame looking over illuminated amusement-park rides and flags toward a broad wooden roller coaster. — The camera view shifts across ride lights, flags, and the coaster structure.

Elevated home-movie frame from 1962 Los Angeles showing the amusement park at dusk, with glowing rides, flags, and a wooden roller coaster. — Final frame holds on the illuminated park grounds beneath the roller coaster.

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