Los Angeles California USA-1962: Woman in 1960s Dress Gazing at Beach

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

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Woman in 1960s Dress Gazing at Beach — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a woman in a colorful striped dress and a classic 1960s bouffant hairstyle gazing out at a sun-drenched California beach. The grainy, color-bleached footage shows her from behind, holding a light-colored bag as she stands on a grassy cliff overlooking the ocean. The scene evokes a nostalgic, personal moment from a mid-century family vacation, with the blue waves and sandy shore stretching into the distance under a clear sky.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123753000

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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: Supports 1960s Los Angeles-area beach vacation requests needing real 8mm home-movie material for documentary, museum, education, or period memory sequences.
Period detail: The woman's sleeveless striped dress, bouffant hairstyle, beach overlook, and color 8mm texture support a mid-century family-vacation setting consistent with the 1962 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged visitor moment as a woman stands with her bag and looks out from a coastal overlook toward swimmers, sand, surf, and open water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman seen from behind, a striped dress, a light-colored bag, beach sand, ocean waves, low coastal plants, distant beachgoers, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has grain, dust, slight color fading, heavy contrast, and 8mm frame edges that give the brief seaside view clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a nostalgic beach cutaway, a quiet travel insert, a coastal transition, or a personal memory beat within a 1960s California sequence.
Historical context: The scene shows leisure at a Southern California beach from a personal vantage point, emphasizing clothing, hairstyle, and visitor behavior rather than a named landmark.
Research note: People are visible from behind and at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed; copyright, model, and location permissions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1962 Los Angeles beach home movie, 1960s woman overlooking ocean, vintage 8mm California vacation, and bouffant beach footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Los Angeles or 1962 beach material, then with broader 1960s vacation and coastal leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A mostly blank 8mm frame with visible dust, scratches, muted exposure, and dark film-edge shading. — A leader-like or transitional film frame with dust and darkened borders.

In 1962 Los Angeles-area home-movie footage, a woman with a bouffant hairstyle looks from a coastal overlook toward the beach and ocean. — Woman seen from behind at a coastal overlook above the beach and surf.

The woman remains near coastal plants, holding a light-colored bag while facing the beach and blue ocean in 1962 Los Angeles-area footage. — Woman at the edge of a beach overlook, facing the shoreline below.

A woman in mid-century dress turns slightly while standing above a Los Angeles-area beach, with surf, sand, and small distant figures below. — Woman at the overlook with the shoreline and beachgoers in the distance.

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