Central Coast California USA-1973: View Of Boats Docked At A Marina

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

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View Of Boats Docked At A Marina — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 capturing a tranquil marina on the Central Coast of California. The clip shows numerous sailboats and motor yachts docked closely together, their masts creating a dense forest against a soft purple-blue sky. The water is calm, reflecting the boats and masts with a gentle shimmer. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and a soft focus typical of 1970s amateur footage. The scene evokes a nostalgic, peaceful atmosphere of coastal leisure and boating culture from the era.

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: 120954757

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 Central Coast California marina footage suited for documentary or educational sequences about coastal leisure, boating, harbors, and everyday waterfront recreation.
Period detail: The crowded small-craft marina, sailboat masts, motorboats, soft color rendering, and 8mm scan texture support a 1973 home-movie reading without identifying a specific harbor or landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor-shot viewpoint, holding on docked boats and reflective water rather than following a planned action or posed subject.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rows of sailboats and motorboats, dense vertical masts, calm marina water, dock structures, low waterfront buildings, a pale purple-blue sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm home-movie texture through soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, mild exposure variation, and contact-sheet gate edges.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, waterfront transition, coastal leisure cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a 1970s California sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents recreational boating culture and marina density on the California coast as seen through a private home-movie camera, with no visible people or identifiable public event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any location or property permissions should still be reviewed separately from likeness concerns.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1973 8mm California marina, Central Coast sailboats home movie, 1970s harbor boats, docked yachts vintage footage, and calm marina water Super 8.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1973 Central Coast California waterfront material, then with broader 1970s boating, harbor, recreation, and coastal travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 8mm view of a Central Coast California marina with closely docked boats, tall masts, calm reflective water, and dark film-frame borders. — Docked boats and masts in a crowded marina.

1973 Central Coast California marina scene showing rows of docked small craft, sailboat masts, still water reflections, and a soft 8mm home-movie look. — Rows of boats reflected in still marina water.

1973 8mm frame of a California coastal marina with small boats in the foreground, waterfront buildings beyond, many masts, and calm harbor water. — Small boats moored near waterfront buildings.

1973 Central Coast California marina view with moored recreational boats, a cluster of mast lines, calm water, and soft faded 8mm color. — Moored recreational boats in a quiet marina.

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