Central Coast California USA-1973: Man Holding Something While Walking Toward Restless Sea

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

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Man Holding Something While Walking Toward Restless Sea — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 showing a man in a plaid shirt walking along the Central Coast of California. He holds an object in his hand as he moves across a grassy hillside overlooking the restless sea. The clip captures the melancholic mood of a cloudy day with gentle waves breaking on the shore. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and natural light, evoking a nostalgic, personal memory of a solitary moment by the ocean.

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: 120954513

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: Yes
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 home-movie footage suited for documentary requests needing a solitary figure on the California coast, ocean mood, or reflective travel-memory material.
Period detail: The plaid shirt, short trousers, handheld framing, and faded 8mm color may show an early-1970s casual coastal outing, consistent with the supplied 1973 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged home-movie value in the way the camera observes a lone man from behind as he pauses or walks near the bluff edge facing the sea.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in a plaid shirt, grassy coastal groundcover, pale paths or sandy patches, low surf, a broad ocean horizon, cloudy sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm archive texture through soft focus, visible grain, muted color, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet frame edges from the film scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, transitional shoreline insert, or memory beat between travel, solitude, weather, or California coast sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents a casual visitor perspective on the Central Coast of California, emphasizing personal leisure and landscape observation rather than an identifiable public event.
Research note: A person is visible from a distance and rights review should consider likeness, any indistinct branded detail noted in the metadata, and copyright separately from location or property concerns.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1973 8mm California coast man by ocean, Super 8 home movie solitary seaside walk, and vintage Central Coast grassy bluff surf footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 Central Coast California footage, then broader vintage home-movie material about solitary ocean views or coastal travel.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1973 California coast home-movie footage, a man in a plaid shirt is seen from behind on a grassy bluff overlooking a restless sea under a pale sky. — Man overlooking the surf from a grassy bluff.

A distant man in a plaid shirt stands near the right side of the frame on the California coast, facing the ocean while low surf breaks offshore. — Figure facing the ocean from the bluff edge.

The man appears centered on a grassy Central Coast overlook, filmed from behind against a wide ocean horizon and subdued 8mm color. — Centered figure on a coastal overlook.

A lone man in plaid stands on low coastal vegetation facing the California shoreline, with subdued waves and visible film specks in the scanned 8mm frame. — Lone figure facing the restless sea.

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