San Diego California-1962: View Of Purple Clouds And Sun Setting Behind Trees At

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationSan Diego, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 California

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View Of Purple Clouds And Sun Setting Behind Trees At — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a serene sunset over San Diego, California. The sun dips behind a distant treeline, casting a warm glow across a sky filled with layered purple and blue clouds. Silhouetted trees frame the right side of the view, while power lines and a transmission tower stand against the horizon. The footage exhibits natural film grain and slight vignetting, characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the early 1960s. This authentic archival clip evokes nostalgia and is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or historical storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123807433

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: San Diego, 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 Diego home-movie sunset footage suited to documentary inserts, regional memory sequences, and quiet atmospheric transitions.
Period detail: The silhouetted utility pole or tower, low rooftops, and distant tree line may show a mid-century suburban edge rather than an identifiable landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged home-movie habit of pausing on a sky view at dusk, valuing the passing light more than a formal scenic composition.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include layered purple-blue clouds, a low sun glow, dark trees at right, distant hills, rooftops, and a thin utility structure on the horizon.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight vignetting, and uneven exposure that give the sunset a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief transition, reflective cutaway, end-of-day insert, or memory beat within a Southern California sequence.
Historical context: The view documents a domestic outdoor perspective in San Diego, with natural dusk light and horizon infrastructure visible in a non-commercial home-movie setting.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright and any location or property questions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1962 San Diego sunset 8mm, purple clouds home movie, California dusk horizon, and vintage suburban sky footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1962 San Diego exteriors, then broader California sunset, weather, or home-movie landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 San Diego home-movie frame showing purple clouds, low sunset light, a dark right-side tree mass, and a horizon utility structure. — Purple-blue clouds catch the last light above a dark San Diego horizon.

1962 San Diego dusk view with layered clouds, a bright low sun glow, dark trees, and faint horizon structures. — The sun drops behind the horizon beneath layered purple clouds.

San Diego 1962 home-movie frame with a dim foreground, silhouetted trees, purple clouds, and a faint utility structure near the horizon. — A shadowed foreground frames the fading light under purple clouds.

1962 San Diego sunset frame with blue-purple cloud bands, a bright horizon glow, dark trees at right, and low landscape silhouettes. — Blue-purple cloud bands stretch over the final glow of sunset.

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