Silver Lake California-1966: Passing Yellow Shell Tanker on Highway

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

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Passing Yellow Shell Tanker on Highway — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1966, this vintage home movie captures a road trip through a sun-drenched desert landscape. Viewed from a moving vehicle, the footage shows a yellow Shell tanker truck passing on a two-lane highway, with arid terrain, distant mountains, and sparse vegetation blurring past. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural motion blur, evoking a sense of mid-century Americana and nostalgic travel. This authentic archival clip offers a rare glimpse into 1960s transportation and roadside life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124057216

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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: 1960s 8mm road-trip footage for productions needing an in-car highway travel insert with a branded tanker truck in a desert setting.
Period detail: The rounded cab, Shell tanker markings, open two-lane road, and faded color stock may show mid-1960s roadside transportation details.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a passenger filming through a moving vehicle window during a family or personal road trip.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a yellow Shell tanker truck, two-lane highway, desert scrub, distant mountains, roadside sign, rocky hillside, window edge, and motion blur.
Film character: The scan shows 8mm grain, soft focus, warm color fading, uneven exposure, and gate edges that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a brief travel insert, transitional road beat, transportation cutaway, or memory flash of mid-century highway movement.
Historical context: The footage visually situates automobile travel and fuel transport within an arid California roadside landscape without proving a specific route or event.
Research note: Shell branding is visible and people are flagged in the clip metadata, so trademark, copyright, likeness, and context review may be needed before use.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1960s 8mm highway travel, yellow Shell tanker truck, California desert road trip, and vintage home movie driving footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1966 Silver Lake or California road footage, then broader highway and truck transport scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1966 8mm road-trip view of a yellow tanker truck passing near a two-lane desert highway with distant mountains. — A yellow tanker truck blurs past the window as the car travels along an open desert road.

Yellow Shell tanker truck seen from a moving vehicle on a sunlit California desert highway in 1966 home-movie footage. — The Shell tanker truck comes into clearer view on the road against scrubland and low mountains.

The yellow tanker truck drops back at the frame edge as the moving car continues along the desert highway. — Only part of the truck remains visible as roadside scrub and a sign pass by.

1966 8mm view of a rocky California desert roadside with scrub, highway markings, and a small yellow sign. — The truck is gone as the camera passes a rocky hillside and sparse desert roadside.

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