San Diego California USA-1961: A Fishing Boat Motors Through A Harbor Filled With Boats

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

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A Fishing Boat Motors Through A Harbor Filled With Boats — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1961 capturing a fishing boat moving through a harbor in San Diego, California. The clip shows a white fishing vessel with a brown cabin navigating calm waters, surrounded by other anchored boats. In the background, a coastal town with white buildings lines the shore under a dusky blue sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and soft focus typical of amateur 1960s home movies. The camera remains relatively steady, offering a nostalgic view of mid-century maritime life and Southern California coastal scenery.

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: 120804853

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 harbor clip can support archive requests for mid-century Southern California maritime life, small fishing vessels, and coastal establishing material for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The small working boat, moored craft, low waterfront buildings, soft color reversal palette, and 8mm home-movie handling may show an early-1960s recreational and commercial harbor scene.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the value of an unstaged visitor or family-camera view, observing a boat passing through the harbor from shore or another vessel without formal composition.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white fishing boat with a darker cabin, anchored sailboats and small craft, dark harbor water, shoreline buildings, masts, trees, and a hazy blue sky.
Film character: The clip carries visible 8mm texture through soft focus, grain, slight color shift toward blue-purple shadows, modest exposure variation, and a steady but amateur handheld viewpoint.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short maritime insert, coastal transition, harbor cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence about San Diego, boating, fishing, or 1960s travel.
Historical context: The scene visually situates everyday boat traffic and waterfront settlement in a Southern California harbor without confirming a specific marina, vessel identity, or event from the frames alone.
Research note: Human review should account for possible distant people, a visible vessel name or marking, and copyright separately from any likeness, brand, or property considerations.
Research search match: Likely researcher searches include 1961 San Diego harbor home movie, 8mm fishing boat in harbor, 1960s California coastal boats, and vintage Southern California waterfront footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then with other 1961 San Diego waterfront material, and finally with broader 1960s harbor, fishing boat, and coastal travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 San Diego harbor view with a white fishing boat passing among moored boats, shoreline buildings, masts, and dark blue water in soft 8mm color. — Fishing boat passes through a San Diego harbor.

1961 San Diego waterfront with low buildings, small boats near shore, masts, trees, and dark harbor water captured in soft 8mm focus. — Boats and waterfront buildings along the harbor.

Soft 8mm frame of the San Diego harbor shoreline in 1961, showing moored boats, low coastal buildings, masts, and open water. — Moored boats sit near the waterfront.

1961 San Diego harbor shoreline seen from across the water, with small boats, pale waterfront buildings, trees, and vertical masts softened by home-movie focus. — Harbor shoreline and boats from across the water.

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