Los Angeles California USA-1962: Elevated Beautiful View Of Waves In The Ocean

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

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Elevated Beautiful View Of Waves In The Ocean — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures an elevated view of a sun-drenched California beach. The footage shows gentle waves rolling onto the sandy shore, with a few people relaxing and strolling along the water's edge. The scene is framed by a dark border, characteristic of Super 8 film, with visible grain and a slightly faded color palette of blues and earth tones. A grassy dune slopes down to the beach, and a distant cliff line is visible across the water. This authentic slice of mid-century Americana evokes nostalgia and is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or vintage-themed 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: 123714772

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Covers early-1960s Southern California coastal scenery from an elevated vantage, useful for documentaries, social history pieces, or travel retrospectives needing pre-development beach atmosphere.
Period detail: No clothing or built structures are legible at this scale; the blue-shifted emulsion and visible 8mm gate borders are consistent with early-1960s amateur film stock.
Home-movie behavior: Shot from an elevated bluff or overlook path, capturing the beach below as a family vacation moment rather than a deliberately composed scene.
What appears in frame: Vegetated hillside bluff, sandy shoreline, white-water surf, distant rocky headland, pale blue sky, scattered tiny beachgoers, dark film gate borders, and visible dust and fine scratches.
Film character: A pronounced blue-purple emulsion shift, visible grain, light surface scratches, and dust particles alongside dark gate borders mark this as an authentic mid-century 8mm original scan.
Edit role: Works as an establishing cutaway or contemplative memory beat — the elevated wide view transitions cleanly before or after closer beach action or interview segments.
Historical context: Southern California beaches were popular leisure destinations by 1962; the informal scale of the beachgoers may reflect mid-century day-trip culture before the era of heavy coastal development.
Research note: Beachgoers appear at too great a distance to identify; standard likeness review is still advised. No music, logos, or branded structures are visible. Copyright resides with the original filmmaker's estate.
Research search match: Researchers may search: 1960s California beach overview, vintage Southern California coastline 8mm, mid-century ocean coastline home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same reel or session, then with 1960s Los Angeles or California coastal footage, then with mid-century leisure and beach vacation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Elevated 8mm view of a Southern California beach circa 1962: grassy bluff, breaking surf, distant rocky headland, scattered tiny beachgoers. — Elevated coastal view from a bluff above the beach, California, circa 1962.

Elevated 8mm coastal shot circa 1962, Southern California — vegetated rocky slope, breaking waves, distant rocky point, small groups on beach. — Coastal bluff with beachgoers visible at the water's edge, circa 1962.

Elevated 8mm shot circa 1962 of a Southern California beach — hillside bluff prominent, small figures on beach and lower slope, dusty emulsion. — Beach from bluff height, small figures on sand and slope, film dust visible, circa 1962.

Elevated 8mm shot of a Southern California beach circa 1962 — rocky slope, small groups on shore, breaking surf, distant headland, film scratches. — Small groups of beachgoers on shore below elevated coastal vantage, circa 1962.

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