Silver Lake California-1966: A Man In A Straw Hat Sits At A Construction Site

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

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A Man In A Straw Hat Sits At A Construction Site — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1966, this vintage home movie captures a man in a straw hat and white shirt sitting on a wooden chair at a construction site in Silver Lake, California. He adjusts his hat while smoking a cigarette, surrounded by stacks of bricks and wooden planks on a dusty hillside. The scene, framed by dark borders, shows a man working or resting during a sunny day, with a clear blue sky and sparse vegetation in the background. The footage has a nostalgic, authentic feel with natural lighting and film grain, evoking mid-century American life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news and educational productions. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or branded content, or broadcast promotion.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124057612

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news and educational productions. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or branded content, or broadcast promotion.

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 (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Silver Lake, California, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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 Southern California home-movie requests needing a brief construction-site rest or labor-adjacent cutaway with an identifiable adult figure.
Period detail: The white short-sleeve shirt, straw hat, simple wood chair, stacked bricks, and dusty hillside may show mid-1960s domestic construction or outdoor work conditions.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged pause as the man adjusts his hat and smokes while seated near building materials.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a seated man, straw hat, cigarette, wood chair, brick stacks, lumber planks, dusty slope, sparse vegetation, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm image has warm color, visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet borders that preserve its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, memory beat, or transition for scenes about home projects, hillside lots, informal labor, or 1960s daily life.
Historical context: The clip gives a small-scale view of outdoor work or rest on a dry hillside rather than a documented public event or landmark.
Research note: An adult face is visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright clearance remains separate from person or property concerns.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1966 Silver Lake 8mm home movie construction site, man in straw hat smoking, hillside building materials, and mid-century California footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Silver Lake 1966 material, then with broader home construction, hillside, or outdoor labor footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Silver Lake, California, 1966, a man bends over beside bricks and wood planks at an outdoor construction site. — A man works or reaches down beside stacked bricks and lumber on a dry hillside.

A man appears to handle materials beside stacked bricks and wood on a sunny Silver Lake hillside in 1966. — The man remains bent over near building materials in the outdoor site.

A seated man in a white shirt adjusts a straw hat while smoking near lumber and bricks in Silver Lake, 1966. — A seated man adjusts his straw hat while resting near construction materials.

The man sits on a simple wood chair, holding his straw hat and smoking beside bricks and planks in Silver Lake, 1966. — The seated man holds his hat as he looks toward the camera from the hillside work area.

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