California USA-1952: Waves Crashing on Rocky Cliffside with Foliage Foreground

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Waves Crashing on Rocky Cliffside with Foliage Foreground — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic coastal scene in California. Waves crash against a rocky cliffside, with white foam surging over the rocks. The foreground features a hillside covered in green and yellow foliage, viewed through the dark frame of a window or doorway. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, conveying a nostalgic, personal perspective of a seaside moment. The final frame shows a film damage spot, emphasizing its archival nature.

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: 123340457

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s California coastal home-movie footage for documentary inserts, travel sequences, archive cutaways, and environmental memory beats.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century visitor-shot coastal scenery, with no visible signs, vehicles, clothing, or landmarks to date the frames beyond the supplied 1952 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes surf from a sheltered overlook or framed opening, giving the scene the informal perspective of a traveler pausing at the coast.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include foaming waves, dark rocky cliff edges, scrubby foreground foliage, hillside vegetation, a heavy dark frame edge, and later film damage marks.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, handheld instability, faded color, dense grain, gate edges, and exposure shifts that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a coastal insert, travel transition, natural-force cutaway, or brief reflective beat within a 1950s California sequence.
Historical context: The view reflects recreational or travel observation of the California coast without visible people, signage, buildings, or identifiable public landmarks in these frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property implications should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1952 California coast 8mm footage, rocky shoreline waves, vintage home movie surf, and mid-century Pacific travel scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same New Orleans to Pacific trip reel, then other 1952 California coastal footage, then broader 1950s travel and ocean-wave scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 California coastal home-movie frame with white surf hitting rocky shoreline beyond hillside foliage and dark gate edges. — Surf breaks against a rocky coastal slope, partly obscured by foreground brush and film-frame edges.

1952 California coast view with surf washing over rocks, scrubby yellow-green foliage, and heavy dark film-frame borders. — A rocky point and foaming waves appear behind coastal brush in a softly focused 8mm frame.

1952 California shoreline frame showing waves, brushy hillside, dark gate edge, and several bright circular damage spots on the film. — Surf and coastal foliage remain visible beneath prominent circular film damage marks.

End frame from the 1952 8mm clip, mostly greenish and out of scene with dark edges, dust specks, and exposure falloff. — The clip ends on a largely blank, green-tinted film frame with dust and dark edge shading.

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