San Diego California USA-1949: Men Loading Motorboat and Cargo Ship at Harbor

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

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Men Loading Motorboat and Cargo Ship at Harbor — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1949 in San Diego, California, showing two men on a wooden dock loading a small motorboat into the water. The scene captures a quiet moment at a harbor with calm water, wooden pilings, and a rocky shoreline. A classic white car is parked in the background. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic look of mid-century amateur footage. The clip transitions to a large cargo ship docked at the port, with its tall masts and cranes visible against the sky. The overall mood is nostalgic and documentary, capturing everyday maritime activity of the era.

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: 122719647

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s San Diego harbor requests needing home-movie views of small-boat handling and commercial port activity.
Period detail: Visible period clues include wooden dock pilings, a small open motorboat, a light-colored mid-century car, and a cargo ship with masts and dockside rigging.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged visitor perspective, observing men working around a small boat before shifting to the larger cargo ship nearby.
What appears in frame: The clip shows dock pilings, calm harbor water, a small motorboat, two men, a rocky shoreline, a parked white car, and a large cargo ship.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, gate edges, and handheld framing consistent with amateur physical-film capture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a maritime cutaway, harbor transition, port-establishing insert, or quiet memory beat in a mid-century California sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually links everyday small-craft activity with larger cargo shipping at a San Diego waterfront without identifying a specific vessel or dock.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed, and copyright clearance should be evaluated separately from any property or identity concerns.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1949 San Diego harbor 8mm, vintage California port footage, home movie cargo ship, and men loading motorboat on dock.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with 1949 San Diego material, then with other harbor, dock, boat, and cargo ship scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1949 San Diego harbor home-movie frame showing two men at a dock with a small motorboat, pilings, rocky shoreline, and a parked light-colored car. — Men handle a small motorboat from a wooden dock at the harbor.

1949 San Diego harbor frame showing a docked cargo ship with tall masts, rigging, cranes or booms, and small people near the waterline. — A large cargo ship sits at the port with dockside activity below.

1949 San Diego harbor home-movie frame centered on a large cargo ship, its masts, rigging, hull, and small dockside activity. — The camera holds on the cargo ship and its rigging from across the harbor.

1949 San Diego harbor frame showing a large docked cargo ship with rigging, visible hull, small people near the dock, and a small vessel nearby. — A docked cargo ship dominates the harbor view near the end of the clip.

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