Los Angeles California USA-1962: View Of Silver Fish Swimming Underwater In Aquarium

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

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View Of Silver Fish Swimming Underwater In Aquarium — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a close-up view of a large silver fish swimming underwater in a dimly lit aquarium. The footage, likely filmed in Los Angeles, California, shows the fish gliding past a horizontal bar, its scales reflecting a greenish glow from the tank's lighting. The grainy, low-light quality and soft focus are characteristic of Super 8 home movie footage from the early 1960s, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century domestic entertainment and aquarium culture.

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: 123714103

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: Useful for requests needing early 1960s 8mm aquarium or fish cutaways for documentary, museum, education, or period home-movie sequences.
Period detail: The visible clues are limited to dim aquarium lighting, soft color, and 8mm grain, which may show a public or private aquarium visit in Los Angeles in 1962.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, watching a fish drift past the tank glass without staging or apparent direction.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large silver fish, dark aquarium water, a horizontal tank bar or ledge, greenish reflected light, soft particles, and black film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has a low-light 8mm texture with coarse grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and green-blue color shifts from the aquarium lighting.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an insert, transitional aquatic cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a sequence about leisure, aquariums, animals, or mid-century family outings.
Historical context: As home-movie footage, it suggests casual observation of aquarium life in the early 1960s rather than a formal natural-history record.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright status and any aquarium property considerations should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1962 8mm aquarium fish footage, vintage underwater fish home movie, Los Angeles aquarium cutaway, and mid-century marine animal footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Los Angeles 1962 material, and then with other vintage aquarium, fish, animal, or underwater-themed clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Dim 1962 8mm aquarium view, likely Los Angeles, with a barely visible fish form and green-blue light along the bottom edge. — A dark opening view of the aquarium, with the fish only faintly visible in low light.

Large silver fish enters from the right in a dim 1962 8mm aquarium shot, with a horizontal tank feature behind it. — The silver fish begins to appear from the right side of the aquarium frame.

Close 1962 8mm view of a silver fish gliding through dark aquarium water, with reflective scales and soft focus. — A close view catches the fish as its reflective body passes through the tank.

The fish is seen in profile as it moves through the low-lit aquarium water.

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