Salton Sea California-1961: Living Room With A Christmas Tree And A Child

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationSalton Sea, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Salton Sea California

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Living Room With A Christmas Tree And A Child — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this grainy home movie captures a dimly lit living room with a Christmas tree adorned with tinsel. A child moves through the frame, their silhouette visible against the blue-tinted, flickering light. The footage shows classic Super 8 film characteristics: heavy grain, color distortion, and occasional dust specks. The scene evokes a nostalgic, intimate holiday moment from a bygone era, with the camera remaining mostly static as the child walks past the tree.

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: 124563555

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 1740 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: indian pow wow
Reel-level year note: 1961-1966
Reel-level location note: san bernardino,california,slaton sea
Date: 1961 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: Salton Sea, 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 domestic holiday archive requests needing a brief home-movie insert of a dim living room, tinsel-covered Christmas tree, and a person moving through interior space.
Period detail: The tinsel-heavy Christmas tree, low interior lighting, and 8mm color rendering support a 1961 home-movie setting in Salton Sea, California, without visible landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The scene has unstaged family-film value, with the camera holding near the room as a person passes close to the decorated tree in soft silhouette.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a Christmas tree with tinsel, curtains or wall panels, a silhouetted person, dark room edges, blue-tinted light, dust specks, and film gate borders.
Film character: The clip carries dense 8mm grain, blue-green color shift, flicker, soft focus, dark exposure, and visible dust that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a holiday memory beat, interior cutaway, transitional flash of family life, or atmospheric insert for mid-century domestic footage.
Historical context: The footage shows a private indoor Christmas setting from a home-movie perspective, suggesting ordinary family documentation rather than a staged public event.
Research note: People are visible only in soft silhouette, but likeness and private-interior review may still be needed alongside standard copyright and archive licensing checks.
Research search match: Research matches include 1961 8mm Christmas living room footage, Salton Sea California home movie, tinsel tree interior, and vintage family holiday insert.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1961 Salton Sea material, then related Christmas tree, family interior, and home-movie holiday scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Salton Sea home-movie frame showing a dim living room edge with vertical curtains or wall panels and blue-green film tint. — A dark interior frame shows vertical room surfaces before the Christmas tree becomes clear.

1961 Salton Sea home-movie frame with a tinsel-covered Christmas tree and a person in soft silhouette beside it. — A silhouetted figure appears near a tinsel-covered Christmas tree in the dim room.

Soft 1961 home-movie frame from Salton Sea showing a person moving close to a tinsel-covered Christmas tree indoors. — The figure passes close to the sparkling tinsel, partly obscured by dark exposure and grain.

1961 Salton Sea holiday home-movie frame with tinsel dominating the view and a partial person silhouette at the lower right. — Tinsel glints across the dark frame as a partial figure remains at the edge.

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