Central Coast California USA-1973: Waves Crash on Rocky Coastline on Rainy Day

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationCoast, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Waves Crash on Rocky Coastline on Rainy Day — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 capturing a moody, overcast day along the Central Coast of California. The clip shows waves crashing onto a rocky shoreline under a gray, rainy sky, with dark trees lining the distant coast. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, conveying a nostalgic, atmospheric feel of a quiet, stormy day at the beach. The footage is framed with a black border, typical of old home movies, and includes subtle film scratches and light leaks, enhancing its authentic archival quality.

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: 120954471

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 1395 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: honeymoon
Reel-level year note: 1973
Reel-level location note: salt lake,utah,sf, california,monerey,lake tahoe
Date: 1973 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: Coast, 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: 1970s 8mm coastal weather footage for documentary or educational edits needing a brief atmospheric view of surf, rocks, and overcast California shoreline.
Period detail: The visible period detail comes mainly from the 8mm home-movie format and faded color stock, while the landscape itself appears largely timeless and does not show datable buildings, vehicles, clothing, or signage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, observing rough surf and a quiet shoreline from a fixed or lightly handheld position rather than presenting a composed travel-film scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include breaking waves, a rocky shore, wet sand or tidal flats, low coastal vegetation, a dark tree line, gray sky, and the black frame edges of the film scan.
Film character: The footage shows soft focus, visible grain, muted color fading, slight exposure variation, dust or scratch marks, and gate-edge framing consistent with scanned 8mm physical film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, weather transition, coastal cutaway, or reflective memory beat in a sequence about California coastlines, rain, or seaside travel.
Historical context: The scene documents a quiet rainy-day coastal view in California as preserved through personal 8mm filming, without visible crowds, commercial activity, or identifiable landmarks in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or obvious private property are visible in these frames, but users should still review copyright status and any location-specific use concerns separately from likeness or property issues.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1970s 8mm California coast rainy day, vintage home movie waves on rocky shore, Central Coast surf overcast footage, and archival film coastline cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1973 California coastal footage, and finally with broader archival themes of rainy beaches, surf, rocky shorelines, and quiet nature cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 8mm home-movie frame of an overcast California shoreline, with surf breaking over a rocky foreground and dark coastal trees in the distance. — Rainy coastal surf below a dark tree line.

1973 8mm frame showing muted surf along a rocky California coast, with low vegetation, distant trees, and an overcast sky. — Muted surf along the rocky coast.

1973 8mm home-movie view of waves moving toward a rocky Central Coast shoreline, with a dark tree line and soft, faded film color. — Waves rolling in under gray weather.

1973 8mm frame of the California coast with white surf across the middle distance, dark rocks in front, and a low wooded shoreline under gray cloud cover. — Wide view of surf and rocky shoreline.

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