California-1964: Rustic Lighthouse on Clifftop Overlooking Pacific Ocean

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 California

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Rustic Lighthouse on Clifftop Overlooking Pacific Ocean — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a rustic lighthouse perched on a rugged, tree-covered cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The white lighthouse stands prominently against the blue water and sky, with small outbuildings nearby. The footage shows natural film grain, slight color fading, and subtle camera movement, offering a nostalgic glimpse of California's coastal scenery from a mid-century perspective.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127380940

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1964 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s California coastal travel, lighthouse, and Pacific shoreline requests needing brief editorial cutaways from real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The 1964 date and 8mm color stock support a mid-century home-movie context, while the visible lighthouse, outbuildings, forested cliff, and ocean may show a California coastal landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot viewpoint, holding on a scenic lighthouse across the water rather than staging action or showing people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white lighthouse, small outbuildings, rocky headland, dark evergreen trees, blue Pacific water, pale sky, surf, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, soft focus, slight color fading, dust specks, gate edges, and minor handheld instability consistent with scanned physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a coastal establishing insert, travel transition, lighthouse cutaway, or reflective memory beat in a documentary sequence.
Historical context: The view documents a mid-century tourist or family-film encounter with a rugged California coast, emphasizing scenery and maritime architecture rather than human activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still assess copyright, site identification, and any location or property permissions for their use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1964 8mm California lighthouse footage, vintage Pacific coast home movie, rocky cliff lighthouse, and mid-century coastal travel scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1964 California coastal views, then broader vintage lighthouse, Pacific shoreline, and scenic travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 8mm view of a white lighthouse on a rugged California coastal cliff with evergreen trees and Pacific water behind it. — A white lighthouse stands on a rocky, tree-covered coastal headland above the ocean.

The frame holds on the coastal lighthouse complex, with small white structures, blue water, and dense trees on the cliffside. — The lighthouse complex appears in a steady distant view across the coastal landscape.

A soft 8mm frame shows the California coastal lighthouse from a distance, with surf at the rocks and a forested slope nearby. — Surf and rocky shoreline sit below the lighthouse and wooded cliff.

The final frame shows the lighthouse and small outbuildings on the coastal headland, bordered by forest and open Pacific water. — A distant lighthouse sits on the headland with ocean behind and dark trees at the edge of frame.

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