San Diego County California-1968: Flower Farm with Dahlias in Various Colors

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Year1968
Decade1960s
LocationSan Diego, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1968 · San Diego, California, United States
StatusDirect License

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Flower Farm with Dahlias in Various Colors — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a vibrant flower farm in San Diego County, California. Rows of colorful dahlias and other blooms in red, yellow, purple, and orange stretch across the field, with rustic farm buildings and a dense tree line in the background. The footage shows a slow pan across the cultivated landscape, highlighting the rich textures and saturated hues of the garden under natural daylight. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and slight color shifts, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century American rural scene.

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: 124629972

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 1333 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: #1
Reel-level year note: 1968
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1968 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: San Diego, 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: 1960s 8mm rural California flower-field footage for documentary inserts, regional history sequences, agricultural cutaways, or memory-led landscape transitions.
Period detail: The frames show cultivated flower rows, simple low farm structures, and a wooded hillside, with the 1968 San Diego County setting supported by clip metadata rather than visible signage.
Home-movie behavior: The slow handheld pan has the feel of a visitor or family filmer recording color, scale, and texture in an unstaged rural flower-growing landscape.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dense rows of red, purple, yellow, and pale flowers, bare soil paths, low agricultural buildings, trellised or staked beds, trees, and a hillside backdrop.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, slight color shifts, and handheld framing that give the short view a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, rural transition, garden cutaway, or reflective memory beat within a California, agriculture, or 1960s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents a mid-century home-movie view of cultivated flower fields in Southern California, emphasizing landscape and color rather than identifiable people or public events.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable signage are visible, but users should still confirm copyright status and assess any property or location concerns for their project.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1968 8mm San Diego County flower farm, vintage California flower fields, rural home movie agriculture, and 1960s garden landscape footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1968 San Diego County material, then with broader California agriculture, gardens, flowers, or rural landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 San Diego County 8mm view of flower rows, open soil, low farm buildings, and a tree-covered hillside beyond the fields. — Flower rows stretch across a rural field with small buildings and wooded slopes behind them.
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A handheld 8mm frame shows dense flower beds in the foreground, lighter rows across the middle distance, and rural buildings near a wooded slope. — The pan moves across layered bands of flower beds with rural structures near the far edge of the field.
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Rows of red and purple flowers fill most of the frame, with paler cultivated rows and a wooded background in the 1968 California home-movie footage. — A closer section of the flower field shows saturated reds and purples against a soft tree-lined background.
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The pan reaches green staked beds and yellow flowers in the foreground, with darker red and purple flower rows continuing across the field. — Yellow blooms and staked greenery appear in front of darker bands of cultivated flowers.
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