San Diego California USA-1949: A Boat Suspends Above A Dock

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Year1949
Decade1940s
LocationSan Diego, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1949 California

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A Boat Suspends Above A Dock — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1949 in San Diego, California, showing a small fishing boat being hoisted by a yellow gantry crane at a working harbor. A man in a light-colored shirt guides the dinghy as it suspends above the dock, with larger fishing vessels and industrial structures in the background. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, faded colors, and natural motion, capturing a moment of maritime labor and port activity from the late 1940s.

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: 122719619

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 1660 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1949
Reel-level location note: del mar, california,chicago
Date: 1949 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: San Diego, 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: Supports archive requests for late-1940s San Diego harbor activity, especially documentary inserts about small craft handling, fishing docks, and postwar maritime labor.
Period detail: The dockside gantry, wooden boats, work shirts, older automobiles, and muted 8mm color support a late-1940s working-harbor setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes an everyday harbor task from a nearby dock, preserving the casual timing and obstructed framing typical of unstaged home-movie footage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a suspended small boat, yellow gantry crane, dock worker, larger fishing vessels, harbor structures, older cars, rigging, and a blue dockside booth.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm texture, faded color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that give the scene physical archive character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, labor insert, maritime transition, or memory beat within a sequence about fishing ports or small boats.
Historical context: The clip visually situates small-boat handling within a busy California harbor, with working vessels and industrial dock equipment in the background.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are evident, and copyright clearance remains separate from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1949 San Diego harbor home movie, 8mm fishing dock footage, small boat hoist, gantry crane dock, and vintage California maritime labor.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1949 San Diego harbor material, then broader vintage fishing dock and boatyard footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1949 San Diego harbor view with a small boat by a yellow gantry crane, larger fishing boats, dock structures, and older cars visible. — A small boat sits near the dock crane as harbor vessels and cars fill the background.

A man in a light shirt guides a small boat hanging from a yellow gantry crane at the San Diego harbor dock in 1949. — A dock worker steadies the suspended boat under the gantry crane.

The small boat remains suspended near a dock worker, with fishing boat rigging, a blue booth, and harbor equipment behind it. — The hoisted boat passes across the dockside scene as the worker remains nearby.

A small boat hangs in slings below the gantry crane while a man stands on the dock, with a larger fishing vessel behind. — The suspended boat hangs clear of the dock with the worker below and harbor vessels behind.

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