Silver Lake California-1966: Maggie Mining Company Commissary Ghost Town Tour

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

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Maggie Mining Company Commissary Ghost Town Tour — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1966, this vintage footage captures the Maggie Mining Company Commissary in Calico, a preserved ghost town in Silver Lake, California. The clip shows the weathered wooden building with its distinctive mining headframe and signage, set against a backdrop of arid desert hills under a clear blue sky. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic frame edges of a home movie, offering a nostalgic glimpse into a historic mining site turned tourist attraction.

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: 124058775

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: Useful for 1960s documentary or educational requests needing visitor-shot 8mm footage of a California ghost town mining-tour attraction.
Period detail: The clip shows mid-1960s color home-movie views of weathered mining-tour buildings, painted commissary signage, a headframe, and desert hills.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the brief visitor perspective, with handheld framing that moves from ruins and passersby to the Maggie Mining Company facade.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include adobe-like walls, wooden posts, mining wheels, a headframe, commissary and mine-tour signs, desert hills, blue sky, and a few distant visitors.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, faded color, gate edges, and slight handheld drift typical of family travel footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a cutaway, location insert, travel-memory beat, or transition into a sequence about ghost towns or mining tourism.
Historical context: The footage visually situates Calico as a preserved mining-themed visitor site rather than an active industrial mine.
Research note: Signage and distant people are visible, so copyright, trademark, likeness, and location-use questions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1960s 8mm Calico ghost town, Maggie Mining Company commissary, California mining tour, and desert tourist attraction footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1966 Calico or Silver Lake material, then broader ghost town and mining-tour footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1966 8mm view of Calico-area ghost town ruins with a few distant visitors, desert hills, and soft home-movie framing. — Visitors move near weathered ruins at the mining-tour site.

1966 8mm frame of the Maggie Mining Company commissary facade at Calico, with a wooden headframe and mining wheels on the roofline. — The commissary facade appears beneath mining-tour equipment.

1966 8mm view of the Maggie Mining Company building, showing faded roof signage, shaded porch openings, and rough exterior walls. — Faded signage spans the mining-tour building facade.

1966 8mm frame of the Maggie Mining Company mine-tour facade, with commissary signage, mining equipment, and pale desert sky. — Mine-tour and commissary signs mark the preserved mining attraction.

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