San Francisco California-1968: Red Bridge, Water, and Distant Buildings

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Year1968
Decade1960s
LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1963 San Francisco California

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Red Bridge, Water, and Distant Buildings — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a scenic view of a body of water with a rocky shoreline and distant buildings. The footage, framed by a dark border suggesting a window or viewfinder, shows a prominent red bridge structure on the left, likely part of a suspension bridge. The camera pans slightly, revealing a hillside with trees and a small cluster of white buildings near the water's edge. The image has the characteristic grain, color saturation, and slight instability of Super 8 film, evoking a nostalgic, personal memory of a coastal location.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-up
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124632854

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip.

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 1126 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: parade,donner pass
Reel-level year note: 1967-1968
Reel-level location note: reno,spokane,vancouver
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 Francisco, 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 travel footage suited to documentary inserts needing a visitor-shot coastal bridge, bay water, and shoreline buildings.
Period detail: The frames may show late-1960s color home-movie travel views, with a red suspension bridge, rocky shore, small waterfront buildings, and wooded hills.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a passenger or visitor viewpoint across water, with handheld framing and brief panning rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue bay water, rocky shoreline, white waterfront buildings, wooded hills, a red suspension bridge tower, bridge cables, and dark frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows saturated color, soft focus, visible grain, slight weave, and uneven exposure typical of amateur travel film.
Edit role: Editors can use this as a short geographic cutaway, travel-memory transition, or establishing insert for a mid-century coastal bridge sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents a tourist-style view of a major coastal bridge setting and nearby shoreline, without visible crowds, vehicles, or signage.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but the exact landmark and location should be verified separately from copyright and property considerations.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1968 8mm bridge footage, vintage coastal water views, red suspension bridge home movie, and 1960s travel bay shoreline.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with verified same-location 1968 bridge footage, then with broader vintage coastal travel views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 8mm travel frame showing bay water, a rocky shore, small white buildings, hills, and part of a red bridge support. — Waterfront buildings and rocky shoreline seen beside a red bridge support.

1968 8mm frame of a coastal shoreline with blue water, rocky outcrops, white waterfront buildings, low hills, and dark trees. — Small waterfront buildings sit among rocks and hills across the water.

1968 8mm travel view across bay water toward rocky shoreline, white buildings, wooded hills, and pale sky. — The camera looks across rippled water toward white buildings on a rocky shore.

1968 8mm frame showing a red suspension bridge tower, bridge deck, cables, blue water, and coastal hills. — A red suspension bridge crosses the water with hills behind it.

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