Silver Lake California-1966: People Playing with Ball in Water

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Year1966
Decade1960s
LocationSilver Lake, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1966 California

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People Playing with Ball in Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1966, this vintage home movie captures three people playing with a red ball in the shallow waters of Silver Lake, California. A man in blue swim trunks tosses and retrieves the ball while others swim nearby, their movements creating gentle ripples. The scene unfolds under a bright sky with a tree-lined shore in the distance, rendered in the characteristic blue tint and grain of Super 8 film. This nostalgic clip evokes classic American summer recreation and family fun.

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: 124056864

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 1106 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: wedding,vacation
Reel-level year note: 1966
Reel-level location note: danville,illinois,california
Date: 1966 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: Silver Lake, 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 documentary or museum edits needing brief home-movie footage of casual summer recreation in California water.
Period detail: The swimsuits, 8mm color stock, and informal lakeside framing support a mid-1960s home-movie setting without visible landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves unstaged play as swimmers toss and retrieve a red ball in shallow water while the camera watches from shore.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include three swimmers, a red ball, shallow blue water, ripples, distant shoreline, open sky, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The footage has blue-biased color, soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet framing typical of scanned small-gauge film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short summer insert, recreation cutaway, memory beat, or transition within a family or leisure sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents everyday outdoor recreation and group play in a lakeside setting, with no visible signage or event context in the frames.
Research note: People are visible and may require likeness review; no logos or private property are evident, and copyright clearance is separate from personal rights.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1966 8mm home movie, California lake swimming, Silver Lake recreation, red ball water game, and vintage summer footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Silver Lake or California 1966 footage, then broader 1960s swimming and summer recreation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1966 Silver Lake home-movie frame showing swimmers in shallow blue water as a red ball floats nearby. — Swimmers play in shallow water with a red ball near the distant shore.

At Silver Lake in 1966, a man in blue swim trunks reaches for a red ball while others swim farther out. — A man reaches toward the floating red ball as other swimmers remain in the lake.

Home-movie frame from Silver Lake showing a man in shallow water facing another swimmer with raised arms. — The camera looks over a man in the water toward another swimmer gesturing in the distance.

1966 Silver Lake frame showing a man lifting his arms as a red ball rises above him over the water. — A red ball arcs above the swimmer as he raises both arms in the lake.

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