California-1961: Homes And Buildings Dot The Forested Hills Above The Seaside

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 California

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Homes And Buildings Dot The Forested Hills Above The Seaside — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched coastal town in California. The camera glides along the water, revealing a hillside densely packed with white and light-colored homes nestled among palm trees and greenery. The blue water in the foreground contrasts with the warm tones of the hillside, creating a classic mid-century Americana scene. The footage shows natural film grain and slight motion blur, characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. This archival clip evokes nostalgia for 1960s California life and is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or historical storytelling.

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: 127408634

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 1740 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: indian pow wow
Reel-level year note: 1961-1966
Reel-level location note: san bernardino,california,slaton sea
Date: 1961 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 1960s California coastal-town establishing footage, documentary inserts, and editorial sequences needing mid-century homes above blue water.
Period detail: The frame may show early-1960s residential hillside development, with light-colored houses, palms, and low waterfront buildings visible from across the water.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective from near or on the water, observing the shoreline and hillside without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue water, sandy or rocky shoreline, palm trees, hillside homes, low buildings, wooded slopes, and distant ridgelines.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight handheld drift, blue-heavy exposure, and mild blur that give it clear home-movie archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a coastal establishing shot, travel transition, waterfront cutaway, or quiet memory beat in a California sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents a residential coastal landscape in California, showing homes and greenery arranged along a hillside above the shoreline.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but location, property, and copyright status should still be checked for the intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1961 California coastal town 8mm footage, hillside homes by the water, seaside residential landscape, and vintage shoreline views.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1961 California coastal material, then broader 1960s seaside-town and waterfront-home footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 California 8mm view across blue water toward a low shoreline building, palms, and homes on a wooded hillside. — Waterfront view with a low building, palms, and hillside homes beyond.

1961 California coastal hillside with light-colored homes above a narrow shoreline and blue water in the foreground. — Hillside homes rise behind a narrow coastal strip and blue water.

Soft 8mm view of a California shoreline, with trees and hillside homes seen across blue water. — Tree-lined shoreline with hillside homes visible beyond the water.

1961 California coastal view showing blue water, a pale shoreline, trees, and homes scattered across a green hillside. — Residential hillside and shoreline trees seen across the water.

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