Los Angeles California USA-1962: Ocean Waves Crashing Against Rocky Formation

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

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Ocean Waves Crashing Against Rocky Formation — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic coastal scene with a large rock formation rising from the ocean. Waves crash against the rugged rocks, creating white foam against the deep blue water. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics—slight color distortion with a dominant blue tint, visible grain, and natural film edge borders. The scene evokes a sense of raw nature and timeless coastal beauty, offering authentic archival footage for historical or nostalgic projects.

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: 123713124

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: 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: 1960s 8mm coastal nature footage for documentary inserts, period travel sequences, or archival cutaways needing Pacific shoreline atmosphere without people in frame.
Period detail: The frames show no clear period markers beyond the stated 1962 8mm source, with the visible scene limited to ocean surf, rugged rock, film borders, and blue-shifted color typical of aged home-movie stock.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, observing waves and a rocky offshore formation from a steady coastal vantage point rather than staging any human activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large dark rock formation, breaking white surf, deep blue ocean water, smaller shoreline rocks, rounded film-frame borders, and vertical contact-sheet dividers.
Film character: The footage has pronounced 8mm texture, visible grain, blue color cast, slight softness, intermittent scratches, and dark film-edge framing that signal an original small-gauge scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short coastal insert, transition, location-establishing cutaway, or reflective memory beat between travel or nature scenes.
Historical context: The clip documents a rocky Los Angeles-area shoreline as preserved in a 1962 home-movie reel, emphasizing landscape and surf rather than identifiable buildings, people, or public events.
Research note: No people, logos, audible music, or clearly identifiable private property are visible, but copyright, location verification, and any broader production clearance should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1960s Los Angeles coast 8mm footage, vintage home movie ocean waves, rocky shoreline surf archival film, and 1962 California beach cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1962 Los Angeles or California coastal footage, and finally with broader vintage ocean, surf, and travel-home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Los Angeles-area 8mm frame showing a large dark rock formation surrounded by white surf and deep blue ocean water, with rounded film borders visible. — Surf breaks around a rocky offshore formation.

1962 Los Angeles-area 8mm frame with waves washing around a rugged offshore rock, shown with soft focus, blue-tinted color, and visible film-frame edges. — Waves wash around the rugged ocean rock.

1962 Los Angeles-area 8mm frame showing foamy surf spreading beside a large coastal rock formation, with dark frame edges and aged film texture visible. — Foam spreads beside the coastal rock.

1962 Los Angeles-area 8mm frame showing a rocky formation set against blue ocean water as white waves break at the base, with contact-sheet borders visible. — White water breaks at the base of the rock.

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