California USA-1952: Ocean Waves Crashing Against Rocky Cliff

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Ocean Waves Crashing Against Rocky Cliff — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic coastal view from a high vantage point. The camera pans slowly across the rugged California coastline, showing waves crashing against a large sea stack and the rocky shore below. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, natural color shifts, and visible grain. The scene conveys a sense of natural power and isolation, with the deep blue ocean contrasting against the green and brown cliffside. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of the Pacific coast during the early 1950s.

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: 123340437

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1952 California 8mm coastal footage suited to documentary inserts, nature sequences, travel retrospectives, and archive transitions needing a high-angle Pacific shoreline view.
Period detail: The frames show no datable signage or people, but the 1952 8mm source and soft color home-movie look support cautious mid-century California coastal identification.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint from above the shore, with the camera observing surf, rocks, and cliffside rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a steep vegetated cliff, blue ocean, white surf, offshore rocks, a sea stack, rocky shoreline, film borders, and color fading.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm home-movie texture through soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, slight exposure variation, and blue-purple color shifts.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a coastal cutaway, travel-memory beat, establishing insert, or transition into a sequence about Pacific shorelines or road-trip scenery.
Historical context: The view documents a mid-century home-movie encounter with a rugged California coastline, emphasizing landscape observation rather than social activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still assess copyright status and any location or property concerns for their project.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1950s California coast 8mm, vintage home movie ocean waves, Pacific cliff sea stack, and archival coastal travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same New Orleans to Pacific trip reel, then other 1952 California coastal shots, then broader vintage ocean, cliff, and road-trip footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 California 8mm frame showing a high vantage over blue ocean, white surf, an offshore rock, and a steep cliff edge. — Surf breaks around a sea stack below a steep coastal viewpoint.

1952 California coastal frame with white surf, dark offshore rocks, and a sloping cliffside seen from above. — Waves spread across the rocky shoreline beneath the cliff.

High-angle 1952 California 8mm view of surf, shoreline rocks, and a steep vegetated cliff descending toward the water. — The camera looks down over surf and rocks along the cliff base.

1952 California 8mm frame showing surf and a rocky cliffside with visible color fading and warm light leak near the lower edge. — A faded frame shows surf washing below the coastal cliff.

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