San Diego California-1962: A View Of Some Of The Surrounding Properties That Are

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

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A View Of Some Of The Surrounding Properties That Are — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched aerial view of a suburban neighborhood in San Diego, California. The camera pans slowly across rows of single-story homes with light-colored roofs, manicured lawns, and palm trees dotting the landscape. A vibrant pink bougainvillea bush stands out in the foreground, adding a splash of color to the pastel-toned scene. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and film scratches, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American suburban atmosphere. This authentic archival clip is ideal for documentaries, retro-themed projects, or historical content about 1960s California life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Aerial
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123685045

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 for requests needing 1960s San Diego suburban establishing footage or a brief residential California cutaway from authentic 8mm home-movie material.
Period detail: The frames show mid-century single-story tract homes, pale roofs, lawns, utility poles, and palms that support the 1962 San Diego suburban setting in the metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged elevated neighborhood view, likely filmed from a hillside or upper vantage point as a home-movie record of surrounding properties.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rows of low houses, rooftops, small streets, lawns, palm trees, utility poles, dry hillside grasses, and a bright pink bougainvillea-like shrub.
Film character: The scan carries soft 8mm color, mild fading, visible grain, frame edges, gate marks, and small scratches that give the view physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, neighborhood transition, suburban memory beat, or contextual cutaway for early-1960s Southern California.
Historical context: The footage visually documents low-density residential development and landscaped suburban lots in San Diego without showing people, traffic detail, or identifiable businesses.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright and any property-related use should still be reviewed by the licensing team.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1962 San Diego neighborhood footage, 8mm California suburb view, mid-century tract homes, rooftops, palms, and home-movie residential panorama.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1962 San Diego clips, then broader California suburb, rooftop, beach-area, or mid-century home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 San Diego home-movie frame showing an elevated suburban view with tract houses, pale rooftops, palms, streets, lawns, and a vivid pink shrub. — Elevated view across a San Diego residential neighborhood with rooftops, palms, streets, and a pink flowering shrub in the foreground.

1962 San Diego frame with an elevated view of low suburban houses, light roofs, palm trees, utility poles, streets, lawns, and foreground vegetation. — The camera continues across low residential blocks, showing pale roofs, palm trees, utility poles, and landscaped yards.

1962 San Diego home-movie view over dry hillside grass toward rows of single-story houses, pale roofs, streets, palms, and utility poles. — A later frame looks across hillside grass and fencing toward a broad spread of single-story homes and rooftops.

1962 San Diego frame showing a wide elevated residential panorama with single-story houses, pale rooftops, palms, utility poles, and dry foreground grass. — Wide residential panorama with rooftops and palms stretching beyond dry foreground grass at the end of the short shot.

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