Central Coast California USA-1973: Marina with Sailboats and Man Walking Dog

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

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Marina with Sailboats and Man Walking Dog — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 capturing a serene marina on the Central Coast of California. The clip opens with a wide shot of numerous sailboats and motorboats docked in calm waters, their masts creating a dense forest against a hazy sky. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and a slightly faded color palette with prominent purples and blues. The scene transitions to a walkway where a man strolls with a dog, passing a pink building with a sign reading 'HARBOR HOUSE' and a distinctive lighthouse-style tower. The footage has a nostalgic, authentic home movie quality with natural camera movement and subtle motion blur in some frames.

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: 120954771

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s California coastal home-movie footage suited for documentary inserts about marinas, seaside tourism, small craft harbors, or everyday waterfront leisure.
Period detail: The clip may show early-1970s marina infrastructure, pleasure boats, a quay walkway, and a harbor-side building with a lighthouse-style tower and visible Harbor House signage.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in its visitor-shot observation of a marina followed by an unstaged pedestrian moment as a man walks with a dog near the waterfront.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include docked sailboats and motorboats, dense masts, calm harbor water, a quay walkway, palm and shade trees, a man with a dog, and a pink building marked Harbor House.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading toward blues and purples, modest exposure variation, and the gentle instability of handheld home-movie filming.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, waterfront transition, nostalgic travel cutaway, or memory beat between broader Central Coast sequences.
Historical context: The footage reflects recreational harbor life and casual coastal visiting in 1970s California without supporting claims about a specific town, event, or named marina beyond the provided regional metadata.
Research note: People and Harbor House signage are visible, so users should review likeness, trademark, location, and property considerations separately from any copyright license for the film scan.
Research search match: Likely researcher searches include 1970s California marina home movie, 8mm Central Coast harbor boats, seaside quay dog walking, and vintage waterfront tourism footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 Central Coast California waterfront material, and then broader 1970s marina, tourism, and seaside leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 California coastal home-movie frame showing sailboats and motorboats moored in a marina under a hazy sky. — Boats moored in the marina.

1973 Central Coast California marina view with pleasure boats, sailboat masts, docks, and soft 8mm color fading. — Pleasure boats clustered at the quay.

1973 California waterfront walkway where a man appears to walk a dog near trees, railings, and a Harbor House building with a lighthouse-style tower. — Man and dog near Harbor House.

1973 Central Coast California home-movie frame of a waterfront path with a man and dog, railings, trees, and Harbor House signage on a harbor-side building. — Waterfront path beside Harbor House.

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