San Diego California-1962: Steamer Ship and Sailboat on the Ocean

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

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Steamer Ship and Sailboat on the Ocean — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a serene maritime scene off the coast of San Diego, California. A large steamer ship glides across the deep blue ocean under a hazy purple sky, with a distant city skyline faintly visible. A small sailboat appears in the distance, adding scale and movement to the tranquil waters. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and film edge borders, evoking a nostalgic mid-century travel memory. The scene conveys calmness and the romance of sea travel during the early 1960s.

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: 123684694

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: Useful for 1960s editorial or documentary sequences needing San Diego coastal travel, ocean traffic, or home-movie maritime atmosphere.
Period detail: The 8mm color footage may show early-1960s leisure boating and harbor traffic, with a distant passenger or working vessel and small sails offshore.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from shore or a small boat, holding on distant vessels as a traveler records a quiet coastal view rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open ocean, hazy coastline, a large distant ship, small sailboats, a shoreline structure, boat deck details, and film frame borders.
Film character: Soft focus, purple-blue color shift, visible grain, gate edges, dust marks, and slight handheld framing give the clip a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short coastal insert, travel-memory cutaway, maritime transition, or establishing beat for San Diego sea scenes.
Historical context: The footage offers a modest visitor-level view of mid-century coastal recreation and marine traffic without identifying a specific vessel or event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but vessel identity, location confirmation, and copyright licensing should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1962 8mm San Diego ocean footage, vintage sailboat and steamer at sea, coastal home movie, and 1960s maritime cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 San Diego coastal footage, then broader 1960s ocean travel and boating material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 8mm view off San Diego showing a distant ship on open water with a faint coastline under a hazy purple-blue sky. — A distant ship moves across the hazy horizon beyond the blue ocean.

1962 San Diego coastal footage shows a small sailboat in the foreground distance and a larger ship farther along the horizon. — A sailboat crosses the water with a larger vessel farther offshore.

A visitor-shot 8mm frame from 1962 San Diego shows a sailboat at left and a larger vessel near the distant coastline. — Small craft and a larger ship share the hazy coastal horizon.

1962 San Diego 8mm frame with a boat deck at the bottom, a distant shoreline structure, and small sailboats on the ocean horizon. — The camera looks past a boat deck toward a distant shore structure and sails.

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