California USA-1952: View Of Ship Sculpture And Sea On A Clear Sunny Day

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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View Of Ship Sculpture And Sea On A Clear Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a scenic coastal view from California. The clip opens with a wide, hazy landscape of rolling hills and a distant sea under a pale sky, then transitions to a close-up of a ship sculpture monument at Point Loma. The monument, a bronze ship model on a stone base, commemorates a 1942 event. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and natural light, evoking mid-century Americana and travel nostalgia.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 123339490

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: 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 1234 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: miss universe
Reel-level year note: 1952
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1952 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 1950s California travel footage, coastal establishing shots, and documentary cutaways involving Point Loma, the sea, or visitor-shot monument views.
Period detail: The frames show mid-century 8mm color home-movie handling, with a distant coastal view and a ship-shaped monument identified by metadata as Point Loma.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, moving from a scenic overlook toward a landmark detail rather than staging a formal view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include hazy hills, distant ocean, pale sky, stone monument base, bronze ship sculpture, dark sails, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, slight color fading, handheld framing, and exposure variation that give the scan its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief coastal insert, travel transition, landmark cutaway, or memory beat within a California or postwar tourism sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually places a home-movie traveler at a coastal monument setting, showing how scenic viewpoints and memorial objects were recorded in family films.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but monument artwork, location identification, and underlying footage rights should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Searches such as 1950s California 8mm coastal view, Point Loma ship monument home movie, vintage sea overlook, or mid-century travel footage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1952 California or Point Loma material, then broader coastal monument and sea-view travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 California home-movie frame showing scrubby coastal hills and a distant blue ocean horizon through soft 8mm grain. — A hazy coastal overlook frames hills and sea in the distance.

1952 California coastal view with a hazy sea horizon, low scrub-covered hills, and visible 8mm frame edges. — The sea remains visible beyond low coastal hills.

Point Loma monument detail from 1952 home-movie footage, showing a ship sculpture with dark sails on a stone base. — A ship sculpture rises above a stone monument base.

1952 Point Loma monument view showing a ship sculpture above a stone base, with plaque text visible but not fully legible. — The monument is shown closer, with the ship sculpture and plaque area in view.

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