San Diego California-1962: Boats Parked At A Dock With One Boat Leaving

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

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Boats Parked At A Dock With One Boat Leaving — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a tranquil harbor scene in San Diego, California. Several small boats, many covered with protective tarps, are moored at a dock under a clear blue sky. The calm water reflects the vessels and the distant shoreline. One white motorboat appears to be preparing to depart, its position subtly shifting across the frames. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and a soft focus, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American coastal atmosphere. The final frame shows a blurry view of power lines, suggesting the camera is moving.

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: 123684915

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 1960s San Diego harbor footage for documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits needing a calm small-craft marina establishing detail.
Period detail: The covered cabin cruisers, simple dock layout, and 8mm color stock may show a mid-century recreational boating scene without identifying a specific marina or landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint from shore, lingering on moored boats before the camera drifts away at the end.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include covered small boats, cabin cruisers, docks, mast lines, calm harbor water, shoreline structures, dry grass, and overhead wires in the final view.
Film character: The scan carries soft 8mm grain, mild color fading, gate edges, dust specks, handheld movement, and brief blur that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a short harbor insert, coastal transition, recreational-boating cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a 1960s California sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects everyday leisure boating and marina storage in coastal Southern California, limited to what is visible in the home-movie frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable vessel names are visible, but copyright, location, boat ownership, and property considerations should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1962 San Diego harbor home movie, 8mm marina boats, vintage California dock footage, and mid-century recreational boating cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 San Diego material, then broader 1960s harbor, marina, and leisure boating footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 San Diego harbor view with covered cabin boats, docks, masts, and reflections on calm water. — Covered small boats sit moored at a dock under a clear sky.

San Diego marina scene from 1962 showing covered small craft, mast lines, docks, and still water reflections. — Moored boats remain still near the dock with mast lines in the background.

1962 home-movie frame of a San Diego harbor dock with covered cabin boats, small craft, masts, and shoreline details. — A cluster of covered cabin boats sits along the marina dock.

Blurred final 1962 San Diego harbor frame with mast tops, docked boats, blue sky, and dark overhead wires crossing the view. — The camera shifts into a blurred view of masts and overhead wires.

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