Fort Ross California-1938: Lighthouse Standing on Grassy Coastal Headland

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationFort Ross, California, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 Fort Ross California

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Lighthouse Standing on Grassy Coastal Headland — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a lighthouse at Fort Ross, California, standing on a grassy coastal headland. The black and white footage shows the tall white tower with a dark lantern room, flanked by small buildings and two tall radio towers in the distance. The camera pans slowly across the scene, revealing the rugged shoreline and a low wall in the foreground. The image exhibits classic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and dark vignetting, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of early 20th-century coastal life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127262693

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 1153 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: bucks lake,lake tahoe,emerald bay,martins lodge
Reel-level year note: 1938
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1938 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: Fort Ross, 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: 1930s black-and-white 8mm coastal landmark footage for documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits needing a concise lighthouse establishing view.
Period detail: The scene shows a white lighthouse tower, small outbuildings, radio masts, and a low coastal road or wall, consistent with the supplied 1938 Fort Ross metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The framing has a visitor-shot quality, holding and panning across the landmark from a distance rather than staging action or people.
What appears in frame: Visible details include the lighthouse tower, dark lantern room, low buildings, radio masts, grassy headland, shoreline horizon, foreground wall, and edge vignetting.
Film character: The 8mm black-and-white scan carries soft focus, visible grain, mild exposure variation, dust marks, and dark frame edges typical of home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, coastal transition, historical cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a Northern California sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents a coastal navigation landmark and surrounding structures as seen by a home-movie camera, without visible crowds, vehicles, or ceremony.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still assess copyright status and any location or property considerations for their use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1930s California lighthouse 8mm footage, Fort Ross coastal headland home movie, and black-and-white lighthouse cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Fort Ross material, then broader California coast or lighthouse home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Fort Ross home-movie frame showing a lighthouse, outbuildings, radio masts, and grassy coastal ground. — A distant lighthouse stands beside low buildings on the coastal headland.

1938 Fort Ross view with the white lighthouse tower, low structures, radio masts, and open coastal ground. — The lighthouse and outbuildings remain centered as the camera looks across the headland.

1938 Fort Ross frame showing the lighthouse complex, radio masts, grassy headland, and low wall in front. — A low wall or road edge appears in the foreground near the lighthouse complex.

1938 Fort Ross frame showing the lighthouse, outbuildings, radio masts, low wall, and a larger structure at right. — The pan reveals more of the foreground wall and a larger building to the right of the lighthouse.

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