San Diego California-1962: View Of Large Cruise Ship Approaching The Shore In

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

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View Of Large Cruise Ship Approaching The Shore In — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a distant view of a large cruise ship approaching the shore from the sea. The footage, filmed from a moving vessel, shows the ship gradually coming into clearer focus against a calm, purple-tinged ocean under a hazy sky. The grainy, slightly faded quality and color cast are characteristic of Super 8 film from the early 1960s. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of maritime travel and leisure in San Diego, California.

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: 123684633

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 San Diego maritime home-movie footage for productions needing a distant ocean view of a large passenger ship approaching shore.
Period detail: The 8mm color cast, soft focus, and distant passenger-ship profile support the supplied 1962 Southern California setting without showing specific landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective from a moving vessel, watching a distant ship across open water rather than staging a formal scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open ocean, hazy sky, a large distant ship, shoreline or horizon haze, film gate edges, dust marks, and soft handheld framing.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, purple-blue fading, slight weave, dust, and exposure softness that give the scan recognizable early-1960s home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a maritime insert, travel transition, coastal memory beat, or cutaway within a sequence about sea travel or San Diego.
Historical context: The view reflects leisure-era coastal observation from the water, with the ship seen at a distance and no visible passengers or crew identifiable.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable markings are visible, but ship identity, vessel ownership, copyright, and location claims should be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1962 San Diego 8mm ship at sea, vintage cruise ship offshore, home movie ocean horizon, and Southern California maritime footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots from the same outing, then other 1962 San Diego coastal footage, then broader vintage ship and ocean travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 San Diego 8mm frame showing a distant large ship across open water under a hazy sky, with visible film gate borders. — A large distant ship sits near the horizon beyond calm ocean water.

Soft 8mm view of a large ship offshore in the supplied San Diego setting, seen through haze over purple-blue water. — The ship appears softened by distance and haze above the ocean horizon.

1962 8mm coastal frame with a large passenger ship far offshore, calm water in front, and a hazy sky behind it. — A distant ship remains visible across the calm, blue-purple water.

Final 8mm frame showing the large ship low and distant on the San Diego ocean horizon, softened by motion, haze, and faded color. — The ship is faint and low on the horizon as the water fills most of the frame.

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