San Diego California-1962: Large Passenger Ship Sailing On The Ocean

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

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Large Passenger Ship Sailing On The Ocean — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a large passenger ship sailing on the ocean, likely in San Diego, California. The clip shows the vessel moving through calm waters under a hazy, overcast sky, with a smaller tugboat visible nearby. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, muted blue and purple color grading, and subtle film grain. The scene evokes a sense of mid-century maritime travel and nostalgia, with the ship's white superstructure standing out against the water. This archival footage is ideal for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects.

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: 123684609

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s 8mm maritime footage for documentary inserts about passenger travel, harbor activity, coastal transportation, or mid-century ocean scenes.
Period detail: The white passenger ship, small tugboat, and soft 8mm color may show early 1960s harbor traffic near San Diego, based on the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot home-movie viewpoint, observing a large ship from shore or another vessel without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large passenger ship, a small tugboat, open water, hazy sky, distant shoreline or harbor structures, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries soft focus, blue-purple color shift, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and the rounded frame edges typical of scanned 8mm film.
Edit role: An editor can use this as a brief cutaway, transition, or memory beat for maritime travel, harbor arrivals, or coastal transportation sequences.
Historical context: The scene visually situates passenger shipping within a calm coastal harbor setting, without identifying a specific vessel, company, or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but vessel identity, location, copyright status, and any underlying archival rights should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1960s 8mm passenger ship, San Diego harbor home movie, tugboat beside ocean liner, and vintage coastal travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with 1962 San Diego or California harbor material, then with broader ship, ocean, and travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 8mm footage, likely San Diego, showing a large passenger ship offshore with a small tugboat nearby in hazy light. — A large passenger ship moves across calm water with a tugboat alongside.

Likely San Diego harbor view from 1962, with a distant passenger ship and tugboat framed by soft 8mm color and haze. — The ship remains centered as the tugboat travels nearby on the water.

1962 home-movie frame of a large passenger ship offshore, with tugboat support and muted blue-purple 8mm film color. — The vessel appears farther away, with the tugboat still visible against the water.

Likely San Diego 1962 harbor footage showing a passenger ship, tugboat, and small sailboat under a hazy sky. — A small sailboat enters the foreground while the passenger ship and tugboat remain offshore.

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