Fort Ord California-1957: Fort Ord Range Office and Coastal Landscape

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationFort Ord, California, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

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Fort Ord Range Office and Coastal Landscape — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1957, this vintage home movie captures a view from a moving train, passing a building with a 'FORT ORD RANGE OFFICE' sign under a clear blue sky. The footage transitions to a scenic coastal landscape with rolling waves and sandy dunes, showcasing the natural beauty of the California coastline. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and motion blur, offering authentic archival footage of mid-century travel and landscape.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127710806

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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: 1957 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: Fort Ord, 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s 8mm home-movie footage for edits needing a military range office sign from train travel and California coastal ocean cutaways.
Period detail: The Fort Ord Range Office sign, simple roadside building, train-window framing, and faded color 8mm stock support a mid-century travel record.
Home-movie behavior: The clip keeps the casual passenger viewpoint of a moving train, then shifts to unposed coastal views recorded for personal memory rather than staged coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a Fort Ord Range Office building, train-window borders, blue sky, ocean horizon, surf lines, sandy dunes, and scrub vegetation.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, blue color drift, gate shadows, slight blur from motion, and uneven exposure that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, coastline cutaway, or memory beat between military-site and California landscape material.
Historical context: The visible sign places part of the clip near Fort Ord, while the ocean frames show a nearby coastal landscape without identifying a specific beach or landmark.
Research note: No people are visible, but the Fort Ord sign and military-related location should be reviewed for identification, copyright, trademark, and property-context concerns.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1957 8mm Fort Ord Range Office, California coast home movie, train window ocean view, and mid-century coastal travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel travel shots, then with 1957 California or Fort Ord material, then with broader mid-century train-window and ocean coastline footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 8mm frame showing a Fort Ord Range Office building from a moving train or vehicle, with dark window edges in the foreground. — A Fort Ord Range Office building passes behind train-window framing.

Soft 1957 8mm coastal view with a blue ocean horizon, rolling surf, sandy dunes, and dark window or gate framing. — The view opens to ocean surf and a sandy coastal edge.

1957 8mm coastal frame showing blue water, white wave lines, pale sand, dune vegetation, and train-window-like borders. — Waves break beyond low dunes and scrub near the shore.

Soft 1957 8mm view of a California coastal landscape with dunes, scrub, blue ocean, and white surf lines in the distance. — Low dunes and scrub fill the foreground before the ocean horizon.

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