San Diego California USA-1961: Nighttime Poolside Resort Scene With Lounge Chairs

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Nighttime Poolside Resort Scene With Lounge Chairs — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1961 in San Diego, California, showing a nighttime poolside scene at a resort or club. The clip features a swimming pool with turquoise water reflecting ambient purple and blue lighting, surrounded by stone-tiled decking and lounge chairs. A row of blue plastic lounge chairs lines the pool edge, with a building featuring wooden posts and windows in the background. The footage has a distinct grainy texture and color cast typical of 8mm film from the early 1960s, capturing a quiet, nostalgic moment of leisure and relaxation.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120812797

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 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: Useful for requests needing early 1960s Southern California leisure atmosphere, especially a quiet nighttime resort or club pool cutaway for documentary, education, or period-context editing.
Period detail: The visible lounge chairs, stone-edged pool deck, wood-posted building, and saturated blue-purple night lighting may show a mid-century resort or club environment consistent with the 1961 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of a visitor-shot home movie, observing an empty poolside leisure area without staged action or visible performers.
What appears in frame: Across the frames, the clip shows turquoise pool water, a stone-tiled deck, metal railings, blue lounge chairs, wooden posts, windows or doors, and dark nighttime reflections.
Film character: The 8mm footage carries soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and a pronounced purple-blue color cast that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, quiet transition, leisure cutaway, or memory beat between scenes about travel, hotels, recreation, or nighttime resort life.
Historical context: The scene visually suggests private or semi-private leisure infrastructure in San Diego in the early 1960s, while the frames themselves do not identify the exact property or event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but the pool area appears to be private or semi-private property and should still be reviewed separately from copyright clearance.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1961 8mm San Diego resort pool at night, early 1960s California hotel swimming pool, vintage home movie lounge chairs, or nighttime club pool footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel San Diego 1961 material, then with other same-location or same-year California travel footage, and finally with broader resort, pool, and leisure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 San Diego home-movie frame showing a quiet nighttime pool area with turquoise water, stone pool edging, railings, and shadowed building details in the background. — Pool water and stone edge under nighttime lighting.

1961 San Diego home-movie frame of a nighttime resort or club pool, with reflective blue-green water, stone edging, railings, and a doorway or windowed entrance at the right. — Reflective pool surface beside a building entrance.

1961 San Diego frame showing a pool corner at night, with turquoise water, a pale deck, a handrail, and a row of lounge chairs near a shadowed building. — Pool corner with lounge chairs along the deck.

1961 San Diego home-movie frame with blue lounge chairs lined along a nighttime pool deck, framed by wooden posts, dark windows, and reflective pool water. — Blue lounge chairs lined beside the pool.

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