San Francisco California-1952: View Of Mountains And Sea Waves On A Bright Sunny Day

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1952 San Francisco California

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View Of Mountains And Sea Waves On A Bright Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic coastal view from San Francisco, California. The footage shows powerful waves crashing against a rocky shoreline beneath steep, shadowed cliffs. The scene is framed by dark window edges, giving the impression of viewing from inside a vehicle or building. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, faded colors, and slight motion blur, with a bright, overexposed sky and deep blue-purple water. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of California's rugged coastline during the early 1950s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123340652

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: San Francisco, 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, location transitions, or visual references to rugged shoreline and surf.
Period detail: The 8mm color, soft focus, and contact-print framing support an early-1950s home-movie look, though the visible shoreline itself has few date-specific clues.
Home-movie behavior: The framing feels like a visitor-shot view from a window or vehicle, recording the coastline as a passing scenic attraction rather than a staged landscape.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include steep dark cliffs, bright surf, rocky shoreline, blue-purple ocean, pale sky, and black frame edges from the filmed viewpoint.
Film character: The clip has visible 8mm grain, faded color, slight blur, uneven exposure, and dark gate or window edges that add physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a coastal cutaway, establishing insert, travel transition, or reflective memory beat within a California or 1950s sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a mid-century amateur view of the San Francisco-area coast, emphasizing cliffs and ocean conditions rather than people or urban activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable property marks are visible, but copyright status and any location or property implications should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1950s 8mm California coast, San Francisco shoreline home movie, rocky cliffs and waves, and vintage ocean cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel travel footage, then San Francisco or California 1952 material, then broader archival coastline and surf scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 8mm San Francisco-area coastal view with waves below steep cliffs and dark window-like edges framing the scene. — Waves roll below steep coastal cliffs in a bright, grainy home-movie view.

San Francisco-area shoreline appears through dark framing, with white surf tracing the base of steep coastal cliffs. — A curved line of surf follows the base of the shadowed cliffs.

Grainy 8mm frame of a cliff face and foamy shoreline, likely from the 1952 San Francisco coastal footage. — The view shifts closer to a cliff face as surf breaks below.

Vintage 8mm coastal frame showing surf, scattered rocks, and steep cliffs in the San Francisco-area home movie. — Foamy waves and scattered rocks sit below the dark coastal slope.

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