California-1969: Graduates Receiving Diplomas and Handshakes on a Canopied Stage

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration3s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 · California, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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1969 · California · Reel 522c110f contains 5 published Stockfilm-exclusive clips. Watch them in reel order and review the available reel documentation.

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What is in this clip

graduation
academic ceremony
achievement
rite of passage
college life
late 1960s America
education

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · low angle from audience level looking up at the stage
Setting: outdoor · Canopied outdoor commencement stage on a college field with a long pale building behind
Time and weather: daytime · late spring or early summer · clear and sunny
Lighting: bright direct sunlight with the stage partly in canopy shade
People: 10 · About ten adults in black caps and gowns: young men and women graduates, a white-haired official in a robe with a red and blue hood, an older robed man beside him, and a bearded man in a red-trimmed robe in the foreground.
Objects: diploma folders · mortarboard caps · academic gowns · academic hoods · stage canopy · handrail · lectern · flag · wooden chairs · purple table drape · stage light
Colors: purple · magenta · black · pale blue · red
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Medium
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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A woman graduate shakes hands with a robed official while holding her diploma folder.
A male graduate touches his cap and a long-haired graduate passes close to the camera.
The woman turns away with her diploma folder as other graduates wait by the flag.
A second graduate reaches the official and the bearded faculty member in front smiles toward the camera.

Graduates Receiving Diplomas and Handshakes on a... — Clip Details

Probably California, circa 1969 home movie footage of an outdoor college commencement. A woman in a black cap and gown takes a diploma folder and shakes hands with a white-haired official in a robe with a red and blue hood, while other graduates leave the platform past a bearded faculty member in a red-trimmed robe. A second graduate then steps up for the same handshake. It is a single handheld shot from below the stage, with a flag, a lectern and a long pale building behind, and a strong purple-magenta colour shift.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 3s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000328

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People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1969 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: Answers requests for late-1960s American college commencement footage showing the diploma handover and handshake on stage.
Period detail: Long loose hair on a woman graduate, sideburns, a short hemline under the gown and traditional hooded regalia suggest the late 1960s.
Home-movie behavior: Filmed by a spectator from below the stage, it catches graduates adjusting caps, grinning and glancing at the camera as they come off the platform.
What appears in frame: A canopied stage, graduates in black caps and gowns, a white-haired official with a red and blue hood, diploma folders, a handrail, a lectern, a flag and a long pale building.
Film character: Small-gauge colour film faded heavily toward purple-magenta, with soft focus, grain, dust specks, a dark diagonal line at upper right and a gently drifting handheld frame.
Edit role: Works as a short milestone insert or memory beat marking the moment of graduation within a longer ceremony or life-story sequence.
Historical context: It shows a conventional outdoor commencement with full academic regalia, and both women and men among the graduates, in a setting estimated as California around 1969.
Research note: The college is unidentified and several faces are recognisable, so likeness and institutional identification remain open questions separate from copyright in the film.
Research search match: 1960s college graduation home movie, diploma handshake on stage, cap and gown ceremony, vintage commencement footage, faded colour amateur film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's smiling graduate walking up to the camera and the grandmother after the ceremony, then other circa 1969 California footage, then graduation clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Circa 1969 commencement, probably California: a woman graduate shakes hands with a hooded official while a long-haired graduate in a mortarboard passes the camera. — A graduate holding her diploma folder shakes hands on stage as classmates file down the steps, circa 1969.
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Smiling woman graduate takes her diploma and shakes hands with a robed official at an outdoor college commencement, probably California, circa 1969. — The handshake: a graduate receives her diploma folder from a white-haired official in a red and blue hood.
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Diploma in hand, a woman graduate turns to leave the stage at a late-1960s college commencement, with gowned graduates waiting beside a flag. — Diploma folder in hand, the graduate turns to leave the platform while others wait near the flag.
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Next graduate steps up for a diploma on a canopied stage as a bearded faculty member smiles toward the camera, probably California, circa 1969. — The next graduate steps up as a bearded faculty member in the foreground turns and smiles toward the camera.
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