San Diego County California-1968: Long Fields Of Red, Purple, And Yellow Flowers

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Year1968
Decade1960s
LocationSan Diego, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 San Diego California

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Long Fields Of Red, Purple, And Yellow Flowers — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures sweeping views of a flower farm in San Diego County, California. The footage reveals long, colorful rows of blooming flowers—vivid red, deep purple, and bright yellow—stretched across a vast field. The camera moves steadily through the rows, offering a nostalgic perspective from a moving vehicle. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, rich color saturation, and subtle grain. This archival footage evokes a sense of peaceful rural beauty and mid-century Americana, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects.

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: 124629983

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s 8mm home-movie footage for productions needing rural Southern California flower-field views, travel inserts, or agricultural landscape cutaways.
Period detail: The visible clues are primarily the 8mm color palette, soft focus, and vehicle-height view across cultivated flower rows rather than datable buildings or signage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie feel, with the camera passing alongside and through flower rows as if filmed from a slow-moving vehicle.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include yellow flowering shrubs, long purple flower rows, red and orange blooms, dirt tracks, green crop rows, distant hills, and a pale sky.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm focus, saturated reds and purples, mild grain, gate edges, and slight exposure variation that give it authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a pastoral insert, travel transition, memory beat, or cutaway establishing colorful cultivated fields in late-1960s California.
Historical context: The footage documents a visitor-level view of cultivated flower fields in San Diego County, supporting visual context for rural landscapes and leisure filming in the 1960s.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable signage are visible, but users should still assess copyright, location permissions, and any property-rights concerns for their use.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1968 8mm San Diego County flower fields, vintage California flower farm, red purple yellow rows, and home movie agricultural landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then San Diego County or 1968 California material, then broader vintage flower farms, fields, and rural travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 8mm San Diego County footage showing yellow flowering plants along a pale roadside or cultivated field edge. — Yellow blooms fill the frame beside a pale strip at the edge of the field.

1968 8mm view of red and purple flower rows in San Diego County, with low hills beyond the cultivated field. — Long rows of red and purple flowers recede toward distant hills.

Vehicle-height 1968 8mm view across purple and red flower rows beside a narrow dirt track in San Diego County. — Purple and red flower rows pass close to the camera beside a dirt track.

1968 8mm frame from San Diego County showing green crop rows, purple flower rows, and a central dirt path toward distant hills. — A central dirt path separates green crop rows from purple flowers in the distance.

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