California USA-1962: Seals Swimming in Pool with Star Tiles

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

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Seals Swimming in Pool with Star Tiles — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from California, USA, in 1962, showing several seals swimming in a pool with decorative star-shaped tiles on the bottom. The water has a distinct teal-blue tint, and the film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur. A person's legs are visible at the pool edge in the first frame, suggesting a casual, personal recording. The seals move gracefully through the water, creating ripples and splashes, with a few colorful floating objects visible. The overall mood is nostalgic and curious, capturing a unique moment of animals in a man-made environment.

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: 122653740

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s California animal-attraction or aquatic-life cutaways in documentaries, museum media, and educational edits needing home-movie evidence of seals in a pool.
Period detail: The teal pool, decorative star tiles, soft 8mm color, and casual poolside legs may show a mid-century visitor-shot animal display rather than a staged production scene.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged visitor recording, with the camera watching seals swim from above as people stand near the pool edge.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include several dark seals, teal-blue water, white and colored star-shaped pool tiles, ripples, splashes, black frame borders, and occasional poolside legs.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries visible grain, soft focus, color shift, motion blur, and contact-sheet framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, transition, aquatic-animal cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence about leisure, zoos, marine parks, or California travel.
Historical context: The footage shows seals in a man-made pool setting, offering visual context for how marine animals were casually filmed by visitors in the early 1960s.
Research note: People are partly visible at the pool edge, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location permissions, and any venue/property issues should be checked separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1962 California 8mm seals swimming in pool, vintage home movie marine animals, star tile pool footage, and 1960s aquatic attraction cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other California 1962 footage, then broader 1960s animal attraction, pool, water, or marine-life home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 California 8mm frame showing dark seals moving through teal pool water with decorative star tiles and partial legs at the edge. — Seals move beneath rippled teal water as partial poolside legs appear above the pool edge.

1962 California home-movie frame of a seal swimming through teal-blue water over decorative white and red star-shaped pool tiles. — A seal crosses the pool as star-shaped tiles show through the rippled water.

1962 California 8mm frame with several seals in a teal pool, decorative star tiles beneath the water, and dark film borders around the view. — Multiple seals pass through the pool while white star tiles and small splashes mark the water surface.

1962 California home-movie frame showing seals in a teal pool near the edge, with star-shaped tiles, ripples, and a small splash visible. — Seals swim near the pool edge as ripples and a small splash break the teal water.

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