California USA-1962: Sea Lion Performance At Water Park With Trainer

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

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Sea Lion Performance At Water Park With Trainer — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1962 in California shows a seal trainer in a white uniform directing sea lions during a performance at a water park. The sea lions balance on barrels and boxes, with one performing a trick by standing on its hind legs. The scene features a simple outdoor arena with a wooden fence backdrop, a red drum, and a hoop for tricks. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, faded colors, and a nostalgic, candid quality typical of mid-century amateur recordings.

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: 122653657

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 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This 1962 California 8mm clip supports archival requests for mid-century water park animal shows, family leisure, and documentary cutaways of public entertainment.
Period detail: The white trainer uniform, simple outdoor arena, hoop prop, barrels, boxes, and faded 8mm color may show early 1960s visitor entertainment styling.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective, watching the trainer and sea lions from a distance as the act unfolds without staged camera access.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white-uniformed trainer, sea lions, rolling barrels, low platforms, a hoop, a red drum, arena pavement, and a wooden fence backdrop.
Film character: The clip carries soft 8mm grain, faded color, mild blur, uneven exposure, and contact-print framing that give it a period home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, leisure-history cutaway, animal-performance transition, or memory beat in a sequence about California attractions.
Historical context: The scene reflects a public animal-performance setting in mid-century California leisure culture, with trained sea lions performing for visitors in an outdoor arena.
Research note: People and possible signage or branding are visible, so likeness, trademark, venue, and animal-performance context should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1962 California 8mm sea lion show, vintage water park trainer, mid-century animal performance, and home movie amusement park footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other California 1962 leisure footage, then related vintage water park, zoo, amusement, and trained-animal performance scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 California 8mm frame showing a white-uniformed trainer directing sea lions among platforms and a barrel in a water park arena. — Trainer cues sea lions during an outdoor water park performance.

Sea lions perform on barrels and boxes in a 1962 California water park arena, with a trainer partly visible at left. — Sea lions balance on props during the arena act.

Visitor-shot 1962 California frame of a trainer observing sea lions working with a barrel and platform in an outdoor performance space. — Trainer observes sea lions positioned on performance props.

1962 California 8mm frame showing a sea lion act with trainer, hoop prop, boxes, and arena backdrop at a water park. — Sea lions perform beside a hoop prop as the trainer stands nearby.

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