California-1959: Vintage 8mm Footage of a Mid-Century Apartment Building with Palm Trees and Water Views

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Vintage 8mm Footage of a Mid-Century Apartment Building... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched California waterfront scene. The footage features a modern white apartment building with balconies, surrounded by lush palm trees and greenery. The camera pans across the structure, revealing its mid-century design and a view of the water with docks. The warm, slightly faded colors and visible film grain evoke a nostalgic, retro atmosphere of a classic American vacation.

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: 125508243

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 1084 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: philip 15 mos,santa anita,vegas,arizona,new mexico
Reel-level year note: 1958-1959
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1959 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: 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: Useful for 1950s California home-movie requests needing waterfront apartment exteriors, palm-lined leisure settings, or mid-century travel cutaways.
Period detail: The white low-rise balconies, broad windows, palm landscaping, and 8mm color stock support a late-1950s coastal or waterfront vacation view.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, observing architecture and water from across the way without staged action or visible subjects.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white apartment building, shaded balconies, palm trees, waterfront, docks or seawalls, bright sky, and handheld framing.
Film character: The scan shows soft 8mm detail, visible grain, slight color fade, gate edges, and handheld exposure shifts that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an establishing insert, location transition, vacation-memory beat, or quiet cutaway between mid-century leisure scenes.
Historical context: The footage may show postwar resort or apartment-style waterfront living as seen by an amateur traveler, without confirming a named site.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and property-context review remain separate clearance steps.
Research search match: Search matches include 1959 California 8mm waterfront apartment, mid-century palm trees and water view, vintage home movie coastal building, and 1950s vacation exterior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1959 California waterfront material, then broader mid-century vacation architecture or palm-lined water scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 California 8mm frame showing a white mid-century apartment building with balconies, palm trunks, lawn, and soft handheld focus. — White balcony-front apartment building seen through palm trees.

1959 California 8mm frame of a white low-rise apartment corner with shaded balconies, broad windows, blue sky, and trees at the edge. — Corner view of the apartment building under bright sky.

1959 California 8mm frame looking across water toward palm trees, white waterfront buildings, docks or seawalls, and scattered clouds. — Palm-lined waterfront with buildings across the water.

1959 California 8mm frame showing a palm-lined waterway with low white buildings, shoreline structures, and a bright partly cloudy sky. — Wide waterfront view with palms and low buildings.

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