San Francisco California-1963: Landscape Video Of The Sun Setting Next To A

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Year1963
Decade1960s
LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1963 San Francisco California

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Landscape Video Of The Sun Setting Next To A — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1963, this vintage home movie captures a serene sunset over San Francisco, California. The sun glows orange as it dips below the horizon, casting warm light across a cloudy sky. Silhouetted against the glow are power lines, distant buildings, and a dark hillside with palm trees. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical storytelling.

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: 123775676

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 1112 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: knotts berry farm,zoo,san diego,mary,park,phillip
Reel-level year note: 1963
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1963 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: San Francisco, 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: 1960s San Francisco home-movie sunset footage suited for documentary inserts, city memory sequences, or archival atmosphere around Bay Area landscapes.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century urban edge details such as overhead utility lines, low distant buildings, and a hillside silhouette beneath a cloudy sunset sky.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, holding quietly on the fading sun from a shaded foreground position rather than presenting a formal scenic panorama.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an orange setting sun, layered clouds, dark hillside, palm fronds, utility poles, overhead wires, and distant low buildings.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries warm color, visible grain, soft exposure shifts, and dark silhouetted framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short sunset cutaway, reflective transition, end-of-day insert, or memory beat in a San Francisco or 1960s sequence.
Historical context: The view places a natural sunset against everyday urban infrastructure, suggesting a residential or hillside vantage without identifying a specific landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any location or property implications should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1963 San Francisco sunset 8mm, vintage California hillside sunset, home movie power lines at dusk, and 1960s city landscape footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1963 San Francisco exteriors, then broader 1960s California sunset or urban landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1963 San Francisco home-movie frame of a low orange sunset, clouded sky, utility lines, distant buildings, and a dark hillside edge. — The sun drops near the horizon beside a dark hillside and utility lines.

1963 San Francisco sunset view with warm clouds, silhouetted hillside, palm fronds, a utility pole, and low distant structures. — Clouds glow above the silhouetted hillside as the sun nears the skyline.

1963 San Francisco frame showing a fading orange sun, layered clouds, dark shaded foreground, utility lines, and a hillside silhouette. — The fading sun sits low under a broad, textured cloud layer.

1963 San Francisco home-movie frame of the sun nearly down, with utility wires, dark hillside mass, palm fronds, and clouded dusk sky. — The sun is nearly set behind wires and a dark hillside silhouette.

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