Los Angeles California USA-1962: Driving By The Roadside Motel And Catching Ocean Views

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationLos Angeles, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 California

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Driving By The Roadside Motel And Catching Ocean Views — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a road trip along the California coast. The camera moves past a roadside motel with classic American cars parked outside, including a dark sedan and a white convertible. The ocean stretches beyond the road, with waves breaking on the shore and a utility pole standing near the beach. The footage shows the nostalgic charm of mid-century travel, with a view framed by the car window, capturing the era's roadside culture and coastal scenery.

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: 123712768

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: Los Angeles, 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 1960s California coastal road-trip requests needing home-movie views of roadside lodging, passing cars, and oceanfront travel from a moving vehicle.
Period detail: The motel sign, low roadside buildings, utility poles, and mid-century cars may show early 1960s Southern California travel culture along a beach road.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a passenger filming through a car window while passing a motel and turning attention back toward the surf.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a beach road, motel sign, parked cars, ocean waves, utility poles, low buildings, sand, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure shifts, gate edges, and handheld motion that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a brief travel insert, coastal transition, motel cutaway, or memory beat within a mid-century California road sequence.
Historical context: The footage places everyday car travel, roadside lodging, and beach scenery together without making a specific claim about the motel or street identity.
Research note: Human review should note visible people in the distance and a readable motel sign or possible branding, with separate likeness, trademark, and property considerations.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1962 Los Angeles 8mm coastal driving footage, roadside motel home movie, California beach road cars, and mid-century ocean view cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then other 1962 Los Angeles coastal footage, then broader 1960s road-trip, motel, and beach scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Los Angeles coastal road view from a moving car, with parked cars, surf beyond the roadside, and a utility pole near the beach. — A moving-car view passes parked cars along a beach road with ocean waves beyond.

A 1962 Los Angeles roadside motel passes the camera, with mid-century cars parked out front and the ocean visible beyond the road. — The camera passes a motel sign and parked mid-century cars near the shoreline.

The moving view shows a low roadside building, a motel sign, parked cars, and a utility pole along the Los Angeles coast in 1962. — A low building and motel sign appear as the car continues along the coastal road.

A 1962 Los Angeles coastal view shows surf, sandy beach, rocks or low shoreline forms, and road surface from a passing car. — The clip ends on a moving view of surf and beach beyond the roadside.

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