San Diego California-1962: Naval Cargo Ship And Tugboat In Blue Ocean

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationSan Diego, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 California

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Naval Cargo Ship And Tugboat In Blue Ocean — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a large naval cargo ship navigating the blue ocean under a hazy sky. A smaller tugboat accompanies the vessel, highlighting maritime transportation in San Diego. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, color shifts, and a slightly soft focus, conveying a nostalgic, archival feel. The scene evokes mid-century Americana and military logistics, with the ship's imposing structure dominating the frame against the open sea.

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: 123684605

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 1236 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: disneyland
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1962 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 Diego, 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: Useful for 1960s archive requests needing brief maritime, naval logistics, or San Diego harbor-adjacent transportation footage for documentary inserts.
Period detail: The large gray vessel, small tugboat, hazy horizon, and 8mm color stock may show mid-century naval or cargo movement off San Diego.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot shoreline or boatborne perspective, observing distant ship traffic without staged action or close identification.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large ship, a small tugboat, blue ocean, hazy sky, distant horizon, wake, film gate edges, and soft telephoto framing.
Film character: The 8mm image has blue color shift, visible grain, soft focus, slight instability, and contact-frame borders that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a maritime cutaway, naval logistics insert, travel transition, or quiet memory beat between broader San Diego scenes.
Historical context: The footage visually situates ocean transport and naval presence in a coastal Southern California setting without identifying a specific vessel or mission.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but vessel identity, military context, and underlying footage copyright should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Searches for 1962 8mm San Diego ocean ship, vintage naval cargo vessel, tugboat at sea, and home movie maritime transportation would match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1962 San Diego footage, then broader 1960s maritime, harbor, Navy, or transportation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 San Diego home-movie frame showing a distant large ship and small tugboat on blue water beneath a hazy sky. — A large vessel moves across open water with a smaller tugboat nearby.

1962 San Diego 8mm frame with a large gray ship on open water, accompanied by a tugboat and distant small craft. — The ship continues across the water with smaller vessels visible in the haze.

Soft 1962 San Diego home-movie frame showing a distant large vessel and tugboat moving across blue ocean. — A soft-focus view frames the ship and tugboat against the blue sea.

1962 San Diego 8mm frame placing a large vessel near the right edge, with a tugboat on blue ocean in haze. — The vessel nears the edge of the frame as the tugboat remains in the foreground water.

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