San Diego California USA-1961: Old Man in Dapper Suit and Tie

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationUnited States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Old Man in Dapper Suit and Tie — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from San Diego, California, 1961, showing an elderly man with a full white beard and glasses, dressed in a dark suit, white collared shirt, and tie. He stands outdoors in front of a building with a tiled roof and trees, smiling gently at the camera. The clip exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, warm color grading with a purple tint, and visible grain. The final frame transitions to a scenic coastal view with a rocky cliff overlooking the ocean, capturing a nostalgic moment of mid-century American life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 120812600

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: 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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1961 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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 clip helps answer requests for early 1960s California home-movie material showing an older well-dressed man and a brief coastal cutaway for documentary, museum, education, or memory-sequence use.
Period detail: The man's dark suit, white shirt, tie, glasses, and the soft color 8mm image support a mid-century home-movie reading, with the 1961 San Diego context supplied by the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The man stands close to the camera and smiles gently, giving the footage the direct, informal quality of a family or travel film rather than a staged portrait.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an older bearded man in a dark suit and tie, eyeglasses, a tiled-roof building, tall trees, blue sky, and a final view of rocky coastline and ocean.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, visible grain, slight handheld instability, muted exposure, and a purple-blue color cast typical of scanned small-gauge home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief character insert, family-memory beat, or transition from a personal portrait to a coastal San Diego establishing detail.
Historical context: The clip offers a small visual record of everyday mid-century dress and leisure filming in California, without enough visible evidence to identify the man, building, or shoreline landmark.
Research note: A recognizable adult face is visible, so likeness review may be needed separately from copyright, and the building and coastal location should not be treated as identified from the frames alone.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1961 San Diego 8mm home movie older man in suit, mid-century California family film bearded man, and vintage coastal California home movie cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1961 San Diego or California coastal footage, and then with broader mid-century family portrait or travel-home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1961 San Diego home-movie footage, an older bearded man wearing glasses, a dark suit, white shirt, and tie stands outdoors before trees and a tiled-roof building. — Older man in suit outdoors.

The older man remains framed from the chest up in the 1961 San Diego footage, facing the camera in a dark suit and tie with trees and a tiled roof behind him. — Man facing the camera in suit and tie.

The 1961 San Diego home-movie frame shows the older bearded man smiling slightly while standing outdoors in a dark suit and tie near trees and a stucco-like building facade. — Smiling older man outdoors.

A brief 1961 San Diego coastal view shows rocks, ocean water, a low cliff, and small distant figures silhouetted near the right edge of the frame. — Rocky coastline and ocean view.

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