Los Angeles California USA-1962: Sea Rock Formation With Crashing Waves

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

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Sea Rock Formation With Crashing Waves — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic coastal scene featuring a large, jagged sea rock surrounded by crashing waves. The footage, framed by dark borders typical of Super 8 film, shows deep blue ocean water with white foam as waves break against the rock and surrounding shoreline. The image exhibits classic 1960s film grain and color saturation, with a strong blue tint and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This natural seascape offers a timeless glimpse of the California coast.

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: 123713132

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s California coastal home-movie footage suited for documentary inserts, environmental sequences, travel memory beats, or archival transitions involving ocean rock formations.
Period detail: The clip shows 8mm-era color film texture and a fixed coastal view, with the 1962 Los Angeles metadata providing the supported period and place context.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot feel, holding on a dramatic sea rock as surf moves around it without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a jagged offshore rock, blue ocean water, white surf, smaller shoreline rocks, dark film borders, and light frame scratches.
Film character: The scan carries dense blue color saturation, visible grain, soft focus, slight motion blur, and dark 8mm frame edges that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a coastal cutaway, location-establishing insert, contemplative transition, or brief natural-memory beat between California travel scenes.
Historical context: The scene documents a mid-century home-movie view of the Los Angeles-area coast, emphasizing natural shoreline scenery rather than people, buildings, or public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still assess copyright, location permissions, and any production-specific context before use.
Research search match: Searches for 1962 8mm California coast, Los Angeles ocean waves, vintage home movie sea rock, and mid-century surf cutaway may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Los Angeles or 1962 California coast footage, then broader vintage ocean, surf, and rock formation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Los Angeles-area 8mm frame showing a large offshore rock with waves breaking around it in deep blue water. — A large coastal rock sits in the surf as waves break around its base.

1962 Los Angeles-area coastal frame with a jagged sea rock centered against blue water and white surf. — Foam spreads around the base of the offshore rock in a steady coastal view.

1962 Los Angeles-area 8mm frame showing the sea rock, nearby smaller rocks, and surf moving through blue water. — The coastal rock remains centered as smaller rocks and surf appear in the foreground.

1962 Los Angeles-area coastal frame showing a jagged offshore rock with streaks of surf and visible 8mm borders. — Wave trails cross the blue water below the jagged rock formation.

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