San Diego California USA-1961: Calm Ocean Bay Boat Dock.

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

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Calm Ocean Bay Boat Dock — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1961 capturing a tranquil marina in San Diego, California. The clip shows numerous sailboats and motorboats docked in calm waters under a deep blue twilight sky. The film exhibits characteristic 8mm grain, soft focus, and a slightly faded color palette with prominent blue and muted earth tones. Boats are moored closely together, some covered with tarps, creating a nostalgic, quiet atmosphere of a peaceful evening at the harbor. The camera remains mostly static, offering a serene, observational view of the maritime scene.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120804815

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 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 harbor requests needing quiet marina atmosphere, boat dock cutaways, or coastal establishing material from real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The small cabin cruisers, sailboat masts, covered boats, muted color stock, and 8mm handling may show an early-1960s recreational marina environment consistent with the supplied 1961 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor-shot perspective, lingering on moored boats and open bay water without performers, signage, or directed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include docked cabin boats, sailboat masts, tarp-covered vessels, calm harbor water, distant shoreline structures, and a white sailboat on the bay.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, mild exposure variation, blue color cast, and frame wear give the clip a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief harbor insert, coastal transition, memory beat, or quiet maritime cutaway between broader San Diego or travel sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually documents recreational boating and marina density in a coastal California setting, while avoiding any identifiable people or specific landmark claims beyond the supplied San Diego location.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location context, and any vessel or property identification should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Searches this clip may answer include 1961 San Diego marina 8mm, early 1960s California harbor boats, vintage home movie sailboats, and calm bay dock footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1961 San Diego or Southern California coastal footage, and then with broader vintage boating, marina, harbor, or ocean travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 San Diego marina view with docked cabin boats, clustered sailboat masts, calm water, and distant shoreline structures in soft 8mm color. — Docked boats and masts in the marina.

Close marina view in San Diego with small cabin boats, a tarp-covered vessel, vertical masts, dock pilings, and muted 8mm color from the supplied 1961 clip. — Cabin boats tied up beside covered vessels.

Visitor-shot 8mm view across San Diego marina docks with tall masts, moored boats, covered hulls, calm water, and low shoreline structures in the background. — Masts and covered boats along the dock.

Wider San Diego bay view from the 1961 8mm clip, showing open water, distant moored boats, clustered masts, shoreline haze, and a white sail at the right edge. — Open bay beyond the marina.

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