Los Angeles California-1969: Backyard Pool At Night With Turquoise Water Reflections

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationLos Angeles, California, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1967 Los Angeles California

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Backyard Pool At Night With Turquoise Water Reflections — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a tranquil backyard pool at night. The turquoise water reflects a nearby house and surrounding foliage, with gentle ripples disturbing the surface. The scene transitions to a dark interior view through a window, showing a faint silhouette of a person sitting inside. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and soft focus, evoking a nostalgic, intimate slice of mid-century American life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127503125

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 1343 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: #9,easter,grandma granpa visit,spring rainbow,opening day,little league,baseball
Reel-level year note: 1969
Reel-level location note: clarendon hills, illinois, woodland hills, california
Date: 1969 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: Los Angeles, 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: 1969 Los Angeles home-movie footage suited for archival requests needing a quiet backyard pool insert, nighttime domestic atmosphere, or suburban recreation cutaway.
Period detail: The frames may show a late-1960s residential pool setting, with turquoise pool lighting, patio coping, foliage, and a darkened windowed room visible.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the pool and nearby interior without staging, preserving a private home-movie pause between outdoor water reflections and a seated figure inside.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include turquoise pool water, pale pool edge, leafy branches, dark yard areas, a windowed interior, reflected light, and a faint seated silhouette.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, green-blue color shift, low-light exposure, gate edges, and visible grain that support its original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short transition, memory beat, nighttime establishing detail, or reflective cutaway within a Los Angeles domestic-life sequence.
Historical context: The clip offers modest visual context for residential leisure and private backyard space in late-1960s Los Angeles without identifying a specific neighborhood or household.
Research note: Human likeness and private-interior visibility should be reviewed separately from copyright, with no logos apparent and no clearance guarantee implied.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 Los Angeles 8mm backyard pool at night, vintage home movie pool reflections, and late 1960s domestic interior silhouette.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1969 Los Angeles home movies, then broader backyard pool, nighttime home, or suburban leisure material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Los Angeles home-movie frame showing a backyard pool at night, with turquoise water, pale coping, and dark surrounding foliage. — A quiet nighttime view of turquoise pool water reflecting nearby structures and foliage.

1969 Los Angeles frame of a backyard pool at night, with small light reflections on turquoise water and foliage along the upper edge. — Light flickers across the pool surface beneath dark foliage at the yard edge.

1969 Los Angeles home-movie view of a backyard pool corner, showing turquoise water, pale deck surface, and leafy branches overhead. — The camera holds on the pool corner, deck, and leaves in dim nighttime light.

1969 Los Angeles frame looking toward a dark windowed interior, where a faint seated person appears near the lower right. — A dim interior window view reveals a faint seated silhouette inside the house.

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