California USA-1962: Dolphin Breaching With Enthusiastic Boat Passengers

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

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Dolphin Breaching With Enthusiastic Boat Passengers — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from California USA in 1962 captures a sunny day at sea with a large marine animal, likely a dolphin, breaching the water. The grainy, color-bleached film shows excited passengers on a boat deck, including men in hats and women in summer attire, watching the spectacle. The footage features classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, natural light, and a nostalgic, candid feel. The camera remains steady, capturing the dynamic splash and the animal's movement against the blue ocean and sky.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122653590

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: Useful for 1960s California coastal leisure, marine wildlife watching, and home-movie inserts for documentary or museum sequences about public recreation at sea.
Period detail: The boat railings, summer clothing, hats, and color 8mm look support an early 1960s leisure-boat setting, with California and 1962 supplied by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: Passengers lean over the deck rail and watch the water with visible excitement as the camera follows the splash and breaching animal from a candid visitor perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a boat hull and railings, passengers in summer clothing, ocean water, a leaping marine animal, bright spray, blue sky or horizon, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, color fading, and contact-frame edges typical of scanned 8mm home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief wildlife-watching insert, vacation memory beat, ocean transition, or cutaway from narration about mid-century coastal tourism.
Historical context: The footage shows a public leisure-boat setting where passengers gather at the rail to watch a marine animal, reflecting recreational sightseeing without proving a specific venue.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright, privacy, and any location permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Searches such as 1962 California 8mm boat passengers dolphin, vintage home movie marine animal breaching, and 1960s ocean sightseeing footage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 California coastal footage, then broader 1960s boating, ocean travel, or marine wildlife home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 California 8mm frame showing a likely dolphin breaching near a passenger boat as people watch from the rail. — A marine animal breaks the surface beside the boat while passengers look on from above.

Color 8mm frame from the California boat scene showing disturbed blue water and spray after the animal's movement. — White spray spreads across the water alongside the boat.

1962 California home-movie frame showing passengers gathered at a boat rail, looking down toward the water. — Passengers cluster along the deck rail during the marine animal sighting.

1962 California 8mm frame showing men and women on a boat deck watching the water from behind the railing. — People on the deck look outward from the rail as the boat scene continues.

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