Washington DC-1964: White Glider Plane Soaring over Rural Fields

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationWashington, DC, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1960 Washington DC

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White Glider Plane Soaring over Rural Fields — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie clip from 1964 captures a white glider plane soaring over a rural landscape under a vivid purple-hued sky. The aircraft, with its long wings, glides smoothly across the frame, passing over cultivated fields and an abandoned plot of land. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics, including grain, slight color distortion, and subtle scratches, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American atmosphere. The camera remains stationary, focusing on the glider's graceful flight against the expansive sky.

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: 124004836

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1964 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Washington, DC, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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 aviation, rural landscape, or transportation inserts needing home-movie footage of a glider over open fields.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-1960s recreational aviation, with a white glider crossing low over cultivated rural fields under open sky.
Home-movie behavior: The stationary framing gives the scene a spectator-shot home-movie quality, watching the glider approach and pass above the field line.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white glider, long wings, purple-blue sky, plowed fields, low horizon, distant tree line, film gate edges, and dust specks.
Film character: The 8mm image has visible grain, violet color shift, soft focus, light scratches, and dark frame edges consistent with scanned physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief aviation cutaway, rural transition, memory beat, or atmospheric insert within a 1960s sequence.
Historical context: The scene places a small glider in an open agricultural setting, suggesting leisure or light aviation away from an urban center.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but copyright and aircraft or land identification should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Researchers may find it under 1960s 8mm glider footage, vintage rural aviation, white sailplane over fields, or Washington DC home movie aviation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1964 Washington DC footage, then broader vintage aviation or rural field scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

White glider with long wings approaches over rural fields in 1964 Washington DC home-movie footage. — A white glider crosses above a low rural horizon and cultivated field rows.

The white glider remains centered over cultivated fields, framed by dark 8mm film edges and grain. — The glider holds a low path over the field line, with film wear visible in the sky.

A white glider passes above rural fields and a pale open foreground area in 1960s 8mm footage. — The aircraft glides just above the horizon as the foreground opens into a bare field edge.

White glider crosses over cultivated land and a distant tree line in Washington DC-area 1964 home-movie footage. — The glider continues across the rural horizon with trees and field rows beneath it.

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