Los Angeles California USA-1962: Trained Seal Jumps Off Slide Into Pool On Sunny Day

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

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Trained Seal Jumps Off Slide Into Pool On Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a trained seal performing a jump from a stone slide into a pool at a Los Angeles park. A trainer in a white uniform stands nearby as the seal leaps, creating a splash in the turquoise water. The scene is bathed in bright sunlight, with lush green trees and a brown fence in the background, showcasing classic mid-century Americana. The footage features natural film grain and color shifts typical of Super 8 home movies.

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: 123713385

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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: Useful for 1960s Los Angeles leisure, animal show, or mid-century park recreation sequences needing brief home-movie evidence of a trained seal performance.
Period detail: The pool setting, low slide structure, white-uniformed trainer, fencing, and saturated 8mm color may show a 1962 public animal attraction in Los Angeles.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint, watching the seal jump rather than staging a close performance view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a seal on or near a stone slide, a turquoise pool, a trainer in white, pool railing, brown fencing, sunlit paving, hedges, and splashing water.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows strong grain, blue color shift, bright daylight exposure, soft focus, and contact-sheet framing that preserve the home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, memory beat, or cutaway for leisure travel, park entertainment, animal performance, or 1960s California recreation.
Historical context: The footage documents a public-facing animal act as seen by a visitor, reflecting period leisure imagery without identifying the exact venue from the frames alone.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed; copyright, location, and any animal-attraction permissions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1962 Los Angeles 8mm seal show, vintage home movie trained seal pool, mid-century California park animal act, and seal jumping into water.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Los Angeles footage, then broader vintage animal show, park pool, and California travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Los Angeles 8mm frame showing a trained seal on a stone slide by a pool, with a white-uniformed trainer nearby. — A seal waits on the slide platform beside the pool while the trainer stands at the edge.

1962 Los Angeles home-movie frame of a trained seal leaving the slide over a turquoise pool during an outdoor show. — The seal launches from the slide toward the water in bright sunlight.

1962 Los Angeles 8mm frame showing the seal's splash in the pool beside the stone slide and trainer. — A white splash marks the seal's entry into the pool beside the slide.

1962 Los Angeles home-movie frame of rippling pool water after a trained seal jump, with the slide and trainer in view. — Ripples and splash remain in the pool as the animal-show setup stays in frame.

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