San Diego California USA-1961: Houses And Boat Docks And Palm Trees Run Along

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

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Houses And Boat Docks And Palm Trees Run Along — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1961 capturing a serene waterfront scene in San Diego, California. The clip shows a row of white residential houses with palm trees lining the shore, small boat docks extending into the water, and a white boat moored at a pier. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics with soft focus, natural color shifts, and film grain, conveying a nostalgic, sun-drenched California coastal atmosphere. The camera remains steady, offering a peaceful view of the waterfront community.

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: 120804903

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 waterfront or Southern California residential establishing shots in documentary, museum, education, or period-memory edits.
Period detail: The white waterfront houses, private docks, palm trees, and small moored boat support an early-1960s coastal residential setting consistent with the supplied 1961 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of a home-movie camera lingering on a quiet shoreline from across the water rather than staging an action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm water, white shorefront homes, palm trees, small docks, a moored white boat, lawns, awnings, and bright sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild color shift, and steady home-movie framing that give the footage usable archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, waterfront cutaway, transition, or reflective memory beat for coastal California material.
Historical context: The scene documents a residential waterfront landscape with boat access and palm-lined property edges, without visible people, signage, or identifiable public events.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but the visible residential exteriors and docks may warrant property-identification review separate from copyright clearance.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1961 San Diego waterfront homes, 8mm California boat docks, 1960s palm-lined residential shore, and vintage home movie coastal houses.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1961 San Diego material, then with California waterfront, residential shoreline, boats, docks, and palm tree scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 San Diego waterfront view showing white residential houses, palm trees, docks, and a small boat seen from across the water. — Waterfront houses and docks across the channel.

1961 San Diego shoreline with white homes, large palms, small piers, and a moored boat along the residential waterfront. — Palm trees and residential docks on the shore.

1961 San Diego waterfront frame with a white dock structure, palm trees, lawns, and residential houses along the shore. — White dock and homes on the waterfront.

1961 San Diego residential shoreline showing a white dock in front of palm trees, houses, awnings, and calm water. — Dock and palm-lined homes at the water's edge.

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