San Diego California USA-1961: A Building With A Grassy Lawn Runs Along A Body Of Water

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

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A Building With A Grassy Lawn Runs Along A Body Of Water — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1961 in San Diego, California, showing a white stucco building with a distinctive crenellated tower and a row of arched alcoves along a waterfront. The camera pans across the structure, revealing a grassy lawn, a concrete embankment, and a body of water in the foreground. A small boat with text reading 'LINDSAY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION' floats nearby. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, capturing a nostalgic mid-century coastal scene with trees and a clear blue sky.

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: 120804746

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 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: Useful for 1960s San Diego waterfront establishing material, mid-century coastal architecture references, or documentary cutaways needing home-movie views of a public-facing building along water.
Period detail: The 1961 home-movie footage shows white stucco architecture, crenellated detailing, arched wall openings, a grassy embankment, and small waterfront signage that may reflect mid-century civic or recreational coastal design.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of a visitor-shot pass-by, with the camera panning from across the water rather than staging the building for a formal architectural record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white stucco waterfront structure, crenellated tower forms, arched alcoves, a grassy lawn, trees, a concrete embankment, dark water, and a small floating boat or platform with readable association text.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, blue-purple color shift, slight exposure variation, and handheld pan blur that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, geographic transition, waterfront cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence about San Diego, coastal recreation, or mid-century urban scenery.
Historical context: The scene visually places a formal white waterfront building within a landscaped shoreline setting, offering social context for how a home-movie camera recorded civic or recreational spaces from the water in the early 1960s.
Research note: No people are visible, but the readable boat text and identifiable exterior architecture should be reviewed for trademark, signage, location, and property-release considerations separate from footage copyright.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1961 San Diego waterfront building, vintage 8mm coastal architecture, white stucco crenellated tower by water, and mid-century California home movie shoreline.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1961 San Diego waterfront material, then broader California coastal architecture or recreational shoreline footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 San Diego home-movie frame showing a white stucco building across dark water, with arched openings, trees, lawn, and a small boat or platform marked with association text. — White stucco waterfront building seen from across the water.

1961 San Diego waterfront view of a white wall with repeated arched openings, a grassy embankment, trees, blue sky, and water in the foreground. — Arched waterfront wall and grassy shoreline.

1961 San Diego home-movie frame with a white crenellated tower, arched stucco wall, shadowed entrance, trees, lawn, and waterfront embankment. — Crenellated tower and arched wall by the water.

1961 San Diego waterfront frame showing a white stucco building with a crenellated tower, windows, arched wall sections, trees, lawn, and dark water in front. — White towered waterfront building and lawn.

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