Silver Lake California-1966: Rustic Buildings on Rocky Hillside in Silver Lake

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

Need 10+ clips? Send your brief and get a curated shortlist →

Stockfilm licenses the rights identified in the applicable agreement. Additional use-specific review may be required. See the Licensing Guide and Archive Integrity.

Rustic Buildings on Rocky Hillside in Silver Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1966, this vintage home movie captures a rustic wooden building with a bell tower and American flag, nestled against a rocky hillside in Silver Lake, California. The footage, framed by dark borders, shows a weathered structure with a gabled roof and wooden siding, followed by wider views of a remote, arid settlement with simple buildings built into the mountainside under a clear blue sky. The grainy, color-bleached quality evokes mid-century Americana and frontier life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124058603

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.

View source reel context Open Clip Documentation Record Request source information

Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s home-movie requests needing a brief rural or frontier-style California hillside settlement view for documentary inserts or educational context.
Period detail: The 1966 8mm footage shows weathered wooden structures, a small bell-tower form, an American flag, arid hills, and simple roads that may suggest mid-century roadside or tourist-site architecture.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a visitor's distance, moving from a closer building detail to wider establishing views without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wooden gabled building, small tower, American flag, rocky hillside, dusty ground, scrub vegetation, simple cabins, and a low wooden bridge or walkway.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, dark frame edges, slight blur, and handheld framing that preserve the physical texture of a scanned home movie.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short establishing cutaway, transition beat, or memory insert for rural California, roadside Americana, or constructed frontier settings.
Historical context: The views document how a home-movie camera recorded rustic built environments against dry hillsides, with architecture presented more as place detail than personal event.
Research note: No people, brands, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or location permissions should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Searches such as 1966 8mm Silver Lake California hillside buildings, rustic wooden bell tower home movie, and arid settlement vintage footage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1966 Silver Lake material, then similar home-movie views of rustic buildings, dry hills, and roadside Americana.

Still Frames From This Clip

1966 Silver Lake 8mm frame showing a rustic gabled wooden building, small tower, American flag, and rocky hillside behind it. — A close view of a wooden hillside building with a small tower and flag.

Soft 1966 Silver Lake frame with the rustic wooden facade, tower top, American flag, and pale rocky slope in the background. — The wooden tower building appears slightly blurred as the camera holds on the hillside setting.

1966 Silver Lake 8mm wide shot showing a sparse settlement of wooden buildings, scrub vegetation, dusty ground, and rocky hills. — A wider hillside view shows several simple structures set into the dry terrain.

1966 Silver Lake home-movie frame showing rustic buildings spread across an arid rocky hillside with green scrub and clear sky. — The final wide frame places the rustic structures within the surrounding dry hills.

Visually Similar Clips