San Francisco California-1953: Lighthouse on Pier and Men Aboard Ship

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

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Lighthouse on Pier and Men Aboard Ship — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a group of men aboard a vessel, looking out over the ocean. The scene opens with a wide view of a lighthouse on a pier extending into deep blue water, with distant mountains under a clear sky. The footage then cuts to a dark interior, where silhouetted figures stand near a window, their faces partially visible in the dim light. The grainy, blue-tinted imagery and film damage are characteristic of 8mm home movie footage from the era. This archival clip evokes a sense of travel and maritime life, ideal for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or period pieces.

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: 123344827

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 Bay home-movie footage for requests needing maritime travel, water views, and shipboard observers in a documentary or period edit.
Period detail: The clip may show early-1950s vessel travel, with a pier lighthouse, distant hills, and men in a dim boat interior visible as period clues.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged passenger viewpoint, moving from a waterside vista to men quietly watching from inside the vessel.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue water, a long pier or breakwater, a small lighthouse, distant hills, window frames, silhouetted men, and interior reflections.
Film character: The 8mm scan has saturated blue color, soft focus, grain, exposure shifts, and dark silhouettes that give the footage a home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a maritime insert, travel transition, contemplative cutaway, or memory beat linking exterior water views to passengers aboard ship.
Historical context: The footage offers a civilian travel view of San Francisco Bay rather than a formal record, with people seen as observers within the journey.
Research note: People and partial faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or music are apparent, and copyright status is separate from appearance clearance.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1950s 8mm San Francisco Bay boat footage, home movie men aboard vessel, lighthouse on pier, and vintage maritime travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with San Francisco Bay material from 1952, then with broader 1950s boating, ferry, or coastal travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1950s San Francisco Bay view with blue water, distant hills, a pier lighthouse, and a dark foreground silhouette from a vessel. — A pier lighthouse and distant hills are seen across blue water from aboard a vessel.

San Francisco Bay water and distant hills appear beyond a long pier, framed by dark vertical edges from the vessel. — A long pier or breakwater crosses the bay beneath distant hills.

Inside a dark vessel interior, a silhouetted man appears to hold a camera near bright windows, with other forms in shadow. — A man stands in a dim interior, partly silhouetted beside bright window light.

Men are partly visible in shadow inside the vessel, standing near bright windows that outline their faces and bodies. — Men stand inside the vessel, their faces and bodies partly lost in shadow.

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