California USA-1952: Large Ship Furrowing The Sea With S.S. Catalina Life Preserver

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Large Ship Furrowing The Sea With S — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from California USA in 1952, showing a large ship furrowing the sea. The grainy, high-contrast black-and-white film captures a distant vessel on the horizon, with visible scratches and film wear. A close-up reveals a life preserver marked 'S.S. CATALINA' and 'AVA ON', confirming the ship's identity. The footage has a nostalgic, archival quality with natural film imperfections and a handheld, observational feel.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
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: 122621085

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: 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 1234 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: miss universe
Reel-level year note: 1952
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1952 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: 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: Useful for 1950s California coastal travel, passenger-ship, and maritime transit sequences needing brief home-movie evidence of the S.S. Catalina at sea.
Period detail: The life preserver marked "S.S. CATALINA" and partial "AVALON" may show a passenger-vessel context tied to Catalina Island travel in the 1950s.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot feel, alternating distant ship views with a close detail of onboard safety equipment rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a distant ship on the horizon, open water, a marked S.S. Catalina life preserver, a dark film gate edge, and blue-toned sea surface.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, heavy grain, exposure variation, scratches, and handheld framing that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a maritime insert, travel transition, ship-identification cutaway, or brief memory beat in a California coast sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually supports midcentury leisure or transport by sea without confirming a specific route beyond the visible S.S. Catalina marking.
Research note: Visible ship-identifying text and the S.S. Catalina marking merit review for trademark, copyright, and editorial context, while no people or private property are visible.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s 8mm California ship footage, S.S. Catalina home movie, Avalon travel detail, ocean liner cutaway, and vintage passenger boat at sea.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1952 California or Catalina travel footage, then broader midcentury coastal ship and ocean travel clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Distant vessel on the water in 1952 California home-movie footage, with soft focus, scratches, and dark frame edges. — A distant ship appears on the horizon in a worn 8mm frame.

The vessel remains distant against a pale sea horizon.

Close view of a life preserver marked "S.S. CATALINA" and partial "AVALON," identifying the ship context in the home-movie clip. — A life preserver bears the S.S. Catalina name and partial Avalon marking.

Blue-toned water fills the frame in the 8mm scan, with dark gate edges and soft, high-contrast motion blur. — A blue-toned view of the sea closes the short sequence.

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