San Diego California USA-1961: Classic Wooden Boat Needing Upgrade And Repair

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

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Classic Wooden Boat Needing Upgrade And Repair — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from 1961 captures a classic wooden motorboat at a San Diego marina, its weathered hull and rounded portholes showing signs of age and use. The boat features a dark cabin top and light blue deck, with a person visible inside the cockpit. The camera pans slowly along the side, revealing the boat's classic design and the surrounding water. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and subtle motion blur, characteristic of home movie footage from the early 1960s. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century boating culture and maritime life in Southern California.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120804655

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: Yes
Minors 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 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: San Diego, 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This 1961 San Diego 8mm clip helps answer requests for mid-century recreational boating, marina detail, or weathered wooden motorboat cutaways for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The rounded portholes, varnished wood cabin sides, pale deck, and small cabin-cruiser profile may show early-1960s leisure boat design and upkeep needs.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the observational feel of a home-movie pan across a moored boat, valuing the casual marina viewpoint rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wooden motorboat hull, round portholes, dark cabin windows, pale blue or gray deck surfaces, background boats, railings, and a faint person silhouette inside the cockpit.
Film character: The scan carries soft 8mm grain, slight color fading, muted contrast, handheld framing, and motion softness that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, marina transition, maintenance-themed cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence on Southern California boating culture.
Historical context: The clip visually situates private recreational boating in a San Diego marina setting without establishing a specific vessel identity, owner, event, or landmark.
Research note: People and possible logos or vessel identifiers are not clearly readable, so likeness, trademark, and property-identification review should remain separate from copyright assessment.
Research search match: Useful researcher searches include 1961 San Diego marina footage, vintage 8mm wooden motorboat, mid-century cabin cruiser, weathered boat repair, and Southern California boating home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1961 San Diego marina material, and then with broader vintage boating, boat repair, or recreational waterfront footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 San Diego marina view of a weathered wooden motorboat with round portholes, dark cabin windows, and background boat structures. — Wooden motorboat alongside other marina boats.

Close 1961 San Diego marina frame showing a classic wooden motorboat cabin, rounded porthole, pale deck, and a shadowed figure-like shape in the cockpit. — Cabin and porthole detail on the wooden boat.

1961 San Diego marina shot of the motorboat side, showing a long dark cabin window, rounded porthole, varnished wood trim, and nearby boat windows behind it. — Side window and porthole on the cabin cruiser.

End frame from the 1961 San Diego marina clip showing the boat cabin at an angle, with dark rounded windows, pale hull, and another vessel in the background. — Angled view of the boat cabin and hull.

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