Silver Lake California-1966: Trestle Bridge over Ravine with Train Car

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

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Trestle Bridge over Ravine with Train Car — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1966, this vintage home movie captures a sun-baked desert landscape in Silver Lake, California. A wooden trestle bridge spans a dry ravine, with a train car visible on the tracks below. The arid terrain features sparse scrub brush, distant hills, and a small building perched on a hillside. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and a slightly hazy, nostalgic quality, offering a rare glimpse into mid-century American industrial development in a remote setting.

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: 124059219

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s archival requests needing a brief desert infrastructure or arid California landscape cutaway from real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century road, rail, or construction infrastructure in a dry Silver Lake, California setting, with sparse scrub and distant hills visible.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot viewpoint, panning or reframing across a broad desert scene rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wooden trestle or bridge, dry ravines, pale hills, utility poles, a road, scattered vehicles, scrub brush, and a distant mesa-like ridge.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, faded purple-blue color, visible grain, dust marks, and hazy exposure that situate it clearly as physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, transition, or cutaway for desert travel, infrastructure, construction, or mid-century regional landscape sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually suggests arid land shaped by roads, utility lines, and small-scale industrial structures without enough detail to identify a specific project or site.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but location, copyright, and any visible property or infrastructure rights should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1960s 8mm desert landscape, Silver Lake California home movie, wooden trestle bridge, arid road infrastructure, and vintage construction cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1966 Silver Lake or California desert material, then with broader bridge, road, rail, or construction themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1966 Silver Lake, California 8mm frame showing a wooden trestle or bridge over dry terrain with scrub and hills beyond. — Wooden trestle bridge spans a dry desert ravine below pale hills.

1966 Silver Lake, California 8mm frame looking across a hazy desert valley with a road, utility poles, and distant ridge. — Hazy desert valley view with road infrastructure and a low ridge in the distance.

1966 Silver Lake, California 8mm frame showing a pale arid valley, distant hills, road grades, and utility lines. — Wide view across dry valley terrain toward soft distant hills.

1966 Silver Lake, California 8mm frame overlooking desert infrastructure with a road, utility poles, vehicles, and a low ridge. — Desert infrastructure and road cuts seen from an elevated home-movie viewpoint.

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