Silver Lake California-1966: Desert Motel Complex with Distant Mountains

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

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Desert Motel Complex with Distant Mountains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1966, this vintage home movie captures a quiet desert motel complex in Silver Lake, California. The footage shows a low-slung, pale green building with a brown roof and a white annex, set against a dusty, open landscape under a cloudy sky. A classic silver sedan is parked in the gravel lot. The camera pans slowly across the scene, revealing distant mountains and utility poles, all framed by the natural borders of the film strip. The image exhibits authentic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and a nostalgic mid-century American atmosphere.

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: 124059474

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 a quiet desert roadside building exterior, motel-like complex, or Western landscape cutaway for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The pale low-rise architecture, gravel lot, utility poles, and parked silver sedan may show mid-1960s roadside or lodging design in Silver Lake, California.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor-shot perspective, with the camera observing a still roadside complex and open desert surroundings rather than a planned commercial scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pale green low building, brown roof, white annex, gravel lot, parked sedan, utility poles, cloudy sky, and distant mountains.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, faded color, frame borders, and slight handheld drift that identify it as physical home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a location-establishing insert, quiet transition, roadside travel cutaway, or memory beat within a 1960s American West sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually documents a sparse roadside built environment set against desert terrain, without showing identifiable people or specific public events.
Research note: No people or logos are visible, but users should verify copyright, location claims, and any property-context concerns before publication or commercial use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1966 8mm desert motel exterior, Silver Lake California buildings, mid-century roadside complex, parked vintage car, and home movie landscape footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Silver Lake or 1966 California material, then broader desert roadside architecture and travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1966 8mm frame from Silver Lake, California showing a pale low-rise roadside building, gravel foreground, and a parked silver sedan. — A pale roadside building and parked sedan sit across an open gravel lot.

Silver Lake, California home-movie frame showing a low pale building and annex across a dusty open lot in 1966. — The camera holds on the low building complex across the gravel foreground.

1966 Silver Lake frame with the roadside building partly cropped, a utility pole, gravel lot, and distant desert hills. — The pan moves past the building toward utility poles and low mountains.

Silver Lake, California 8mm frame showing the motel-like complex edge, utility pole, open lot, and distant mountains in 1966. — The final view opens to the annex, utility pole, and mountains beyond the lot.

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