Silver Lake California-1966: Mining Town Building with Ghost Town Notices

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

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Mining Town Building with Ghost Town Notices — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1966, this vintage home movie captures a weathered wooden building labeled 'MINERS SUPPLIES' in a sun-drenched, dusty Western town. The camera focuses on a rustic 'GHOST TOWN BULLETIN BOARD' covered in handwritten notices for rent, sale, and wanted ads, evoking a sense of faded frontier life. The footage shows natural film grain, warm color tones, and a quiet, nostalgic atmosphere typical of mid-century American archival footage.

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: 124058192

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 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 archival requests needing visitor-shot Western ghost town atmosphere, roadside tourism texture, or frontier-themed display cutaways.
Period detail: The 8mm frames show weathered false-front wood construction, hand-painted signage, and handwritten bulletin notices that evoke mid-century tourist ghost town settings.
Home-movie behavior: The camera lingers from a visitor's viewpoint on staged town details rather than people, preserving how a tourist noticed signs, surfaces, and display humor.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a miners supplies storefront, dusty ground, wooden posts, a ghost town bulletin board, paper notices, painted lettering, and film-frame edges.
Film character: Warm 8mm color, soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing give the clip a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or memory beat for Western tourism, roadside Americana, or ghost town display sequences.
Historical context: The clip visually places frontier imagery inside a 1960s leisure or travel context, with staged signage and notices suggesting a public attraction or themed stop.
Research note: No people or logos are visible, but the signage, set design, and property context should still be reviewed for copyright, location, and property considerations.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1966 8mm Western town footage, ghost town bulletin board, miners supplies storefront, roadside Americana, and Silver Lake California home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1966 Silver Lake material, then broader ghost town, Western town, and roadside attraction footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1966 8mm frame from Silver Lake, California showing a weathered wooden building marked miners supplies in a staged Western town setting. — Wooden miners supplies storefront in a dusty Western-style town.

Close view of a ghost town bulletin board with painted wood lettering and handwritten notices, filmed in Silver Lake, California in 1966. — Painted ghost town bulletin board covered with handwritten notices.

1966 8mm close-up of the ghost town bulletin board, showing handwritten sale, rent, and wanted-style notices on weathered wood. — Close-up of handwritten notices beneath the ghost town bulletin board header.

Final 1966 Silver Lake frame centered on the ghost town bulletin board, with pinned paper notices and bold painted lettering. — Ghost town bulletin board with pinned notices and bold painted title.

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