San Diego California-1962: Ferry Arrives At Dock With Cargo Ships In Background

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

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Ferry Arrives At Dock With Cargo Ships In Background — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a bustling San Diego harbor scene. The footage opens with distant cargo ships and tankers anchored in the blue water, viewed through a dark frame. A small ferry, the 'Sunny Side Day', arrives at a wooden dock, carrying passengers. The film shows the ferry mooring, people boarding and disembarking, and the surrounding maritime activity under a clear sky. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and film scratches evoke a strong sense of mid-century Americana and maritime nostalgia.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123684748

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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: 1960s San Diego harbor home-movie footage suited for documentary inserts about ferry travel, waterfront tourism, or mid-century maritime movement.
Period detail: The small passenger ferry, wooden dock structures, distant cargo ships, and faded 8mm color may show early-1960s harbor infrastructure and leisure travel.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective from the dock, watching boats arrive and passengers gather without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue harbor water, a small passenger ferry, wooden piers, dark film-frame edges, mooring posts, distant cargo ships, and waterfront industrial silhouettes.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, soft focus, slight color fading, gate edges, and small scratches that give the harbor view a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a harbor establishing insert, travel transition, maritime cutaway, or brief memory beat in a San Diego sequence.
Historical context: The scene places ferry passengers and working cargo vessels in the same waterfront view, suggesting everyday overlap between recreation and port activity.
Research note: People and possible vessel markings are visible, so likeness, trademark, and editorial-use questions should be reviewed separately from footage copyright.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1962 San Diego harbor 8mm, vintage ferry dock home movie, cargo ships in background, and California waterfront travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 San Diego footage, then broader mid-century ferry, dock, and harbor travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 San Diego harbor view with blue water, distant cargo ships, a mooring post, and dark 8mm frame borders. — Distant ships sit across the harbor beyond a dockside post.

San Diego harbor in 1962, with cargo vessels on the horizon, calm water, a foreground dock post, and visible 8mm gate edges. — Cargo vessels appear across the water from the dockside viewpoint.

A small ferry at a San Diego dock in 1962 carries visible passengers, with wooden pier structures and cargo ships behind it. — Passengers gather on a small ferry moored beside the wooden dock.

1962 San Diego dock scene with a small passenger ferry, visible riders, pier railings, and cargo vessels across the harbor. — The ferry remains alongside the dock as passengers stand on deck.

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