San Francisco California-1952: Sailboats Sitting By The Docks Located In A

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

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Sailboats Sitting By The Docks Located In A — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a tranquil marina in San Francisco, California. Numerous sailboats and small vessels rest at the docks, their masts reflected in the calm water. The scene is framed by a dark border, typical of old home movie footage, with a slightly hazy, blue-tinted color palette. Distant buildings and hills line the horizon under a clear sky, evoking a peaceful, nostalgic atmosphere of mid-century coastal life.

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: 123341306

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s San Francisco marina footage for documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits needing a calm coastal harbor establishing detail.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century small craft, wooden dock structures, utility poles, and low waterfront buildings consistent with the supplied 1952 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The view feels like a visitor's steady home-movie look across quiet docked boats rather than a staged harbor scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include sailboats, mast reflections, calm water, dock pilings, waterfront structures, distant hills, utility poles, and a pale sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, blue color shift, gate edges, mild jitter, dust marks, and gentle exposure variation as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, reflective transition, harbor cutaway, or quiet memory beat in a San Francisco or boating sequence.
Historical context: The footage records leisure and working waterfront surroundings through a home-movie lens, showing moored small boats against an urban bay backdrop.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any location or property concerns separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1952 San Francisco marina 8mm, 1950s sailboats at docks, vintage home movie harbor, and mid-century California waterfront.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then with 1952 San Francisco views, and then with broader 1950s boating, docks, and waterfront material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 San Francisco marina view with small sailboats at docks, mast reflections, waterfront structures, and hills beyond. — Small boats sit at the docks with their masts reflected in still marina water.

1952 San Francisco harbor scene showing docked small boats, tall masts, reflections, distant buildings, and hills. — Docked boats and masts form dark reflections across the calm harbor surface.

1952 San Francisco marina footage with sailboats along the dock, still water, utility poles, and a low waterfront skyline. — The camera holds on the marina as sailboats rest beside docks and low buildings.

1952 San Francisco dockside view with moored sailboats, a waterfront building at right, calm water, and hills on the horizon. — A dockside building enters the frame as moored boats remain still in the marina.

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