California USA-1962: Dolphin At Water Resort Jumping Out Of The Water To Catch

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 California

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Dolphin At Water Resort Jumping Out Of The Water To Catch — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from California USA in 1962 captures a grey dolphin performing at a water resort. The grainy, color-bleached film shows the dolphin leaping from the water, likely to catch food, with a crowd of onlookers visible in the background. The scene is shot from a fixed perspective, likely from a boat or dock, with a white cylindrical structure in the foreground. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, film grain, and a nostalgic, slightly faded color palette with dominant blues and whites, evoking mid-century Americana and marine entertainment.

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: 122653575

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 1236 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: disneyland
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1962 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s California home-movie footage useful for documentary or education edits about marine entertainment, resort attractions, or mid-century leisure culture.
Period detail: The clip may show a 1962 water-resort setting, with a crowd-lined pool, white platform structure, and color 8mm home-movie styling as visible era clues.
Home-movie behavior: The viewpoint feels visitor-shot, watching a trained dolphin performance from across the water rather than from a staged production position.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blue performance pool, a leaping dolphin, splashing water, a white cylindrical platform, workers or handlers, railings, and a distant crowd.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, visible grain, blue-biased faded color, uneven exposure, and contact-frame borders that emphasize its original 8mm physical-film source.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for marine shows, California tourism, family travel, or changing attitudes toward animal entertainment.
Historical context: The scene documents a public-facing dolphin performance as seen by a home-movie camera, offering social context around leisure attractions and spectatorship.
Research note: People appear in the background and handlers are partially visible, so likeness and venue context should be reviewed separately from any copyright assessment.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1960s California dolphin show home movie, 8mm water resort footage, trained marine mammal performance, and vintage pool attraction.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 California resort footage, then broader vintage marine animal performance or family vacation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 California 8mm frame showing rippling blue water in a performance pool with bright reflected highlights and soft focus. — Rippling pool water fills the frame before or between moments of the dolphin performance.

1962 California water-resort view with a white cylindrical platform, partially visible handlers, railings, pool spray, and a crowd in the background. — Handlers stand near a white poolside platform as spectators watch the water show beyond.

Soft 8mm frame from the California water-resort show, with a blurred white platform at the pool edge and blue water beyond. — The camera catches the platform and pool edge in motion-blurred focus during the short performance sequence.

1962 California 8mm frame showing a dolphin partly above the blue pool surface with splashing water during a resort performance. — A dolphin surfaces or leaps through the blue pool water as spray catches the light.

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