San Diego California USA-1961: Woman Sits On Large Rock Overlooking Ocean Beach

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationUnited States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Woman Sits On Large Rock Overlooking Ocean Beach — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1961 in San Diego, California, showing a woman in a striped blouse and dark skirt sitting on a large rock overlooking a rocky beach. She smiles gently at the camera as waves break along the shoreline. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight camera shake, capturing a nostalgic moment of seaside relaxation. The scene includes scattered rocks, ocean water, and distant figures on the shore, evoking mid-century Americana and personal memory.

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: 120812671

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s 8mm seaside home-movie footage suited to documentary or educational edits needing a quiet personal moment on a California beach overlook.
Period detail: The striped blouse, skirt, color 8mm stock, and informal handheld framing may show early-1960s vacation or family filming practices, consistent with the supplied 1961 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: A woman sits and smiles toward the camera in an unstaged family-film pose, with wind and shifting handheld composition giving the scene personal home-movie value.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman on a large rock, a striped blouse, dark skirt, rocky shoreline, breaking surf, wet sand, distant beach figures, and softened coastal light.
Film character: The clip has visible 8mm grain, faded color, soft focus, uneven exposure, and slight handheld movement that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a memory beat, coastal cutaway, vacation insert, or gentle transition within a sequence about family travel, seaside leisure, or mid-century personal archives.
Historical context: The footage documents a casual beach visit rather than a public event, offering social context around informal outdoor leisure and amateur family filming in the supplied San Diego setting.
Research note: A recognizable adult face is visible, so likeness review may be needed, while no logos, private property, children, or audible music are indicated in the supplied rights flags.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1961 San Diego 8mm beach woman, vintage home movie ocean overlook, 1960s California coastal vacation footage, and woman smiling on rock by surf.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1961 San Diego coastal footage, then with broader 1960s beach, ocean, and family vacation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In supplied 1961 San Diego home-movie footage, a woman in a striped blouse and dark skirt sits on a large rock overlooking a rocky beach and ocean surf. — Woman seated above the shoreline.

The woman turns toward the camera and smiles, with the rocky San Diego beach and pale surf line visible behind her in soft 8mm color. — Smiling woman with surf behind her.

The woman remains seated in partial shadow as the handheld camera frames her against the rocky shoreline and small waves below. — Seated figure in shadow by the coast.

A woman in a striped blouse smiles from a coastal rock overlook, with faded 8mm color showing ocean water, scattered rocks, and beach texture behind her. — Smiling woman at rocky beach overlook.

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