Los Angeles California USA-1962: Woman In Swimsuit Enjoying Ocean Waves

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

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Woman In Swimsuit Enjoying Ocean Waves — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a woman in a dark swimsuit and pink swim cap enjoying a sunny day at the beach in Los Angeles. She wades through foamy waves, waving at the camera before turning and walking deeper into the ocean. The footage shows natural film grain, slight color fading, and a classic 1960s aesthetic, offering authentic archival footage of a summer vacation. The scene evokes nostalgia and Americana, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or retro-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: 123753122

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: 1960s Los Angeles beach home-movie footage for productions needing a brief ocean-swimming memory beat or vacation-era insert.
Period detail: The dark one-piece swimsuit, bright swim cap, and small-gauge color film texture support the 1962 beach-vacation context in the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: A woman wades into foamy surf and appears to acknowledge the camera, giving the scene an unstaged family-vacation perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in a dark swimsuit, pink swim cap, breaking waves, wet shoreline, blue ocean, horizon line, and film-frame edges.
Film character: The clip shows 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, handheld framing, and occasional dust or scratches.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a short insert, transition, or recollection beat for seaside leisure, summer travel, or midcentury family-vacation sequences.
Historical context: The footage documents casual beach recreation in the Los Angeles area as framed by a family camera rather than a formal travel or news production.
Research note: A person is visible at distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos, private property, or audible music are indicated by the supplied flags.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1962 8mm Los Angeles beach footage, woman swimming in ocean, vintage home movie surf, or 1960s California vacation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Los Angeles 1962 beach scenes, then broader 1960s seaside vacation home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Los Angeles beach home-movie frame showing a woman in a dark swimsuit and pink swim cap standing in shallow surf. — A woman faces the breaking waves while wading from the shoreline into the ocean.

1962 Los Angeles beach footage frame with a woman in a swim cap standing waist-deep near breaking surf. — The woman pauses in the water as white surf rolls behind her.

1962 Los Angeles beach home-movie frame showing the swimmer partly hidden by a foamy breaking wave. — A wave rises around the woman as she moves farther into the water.

End frame from the 8mm scan showing a pale, overexposed film area with faint scratches and dark frame-edge shadows. — The final extracted frame is largely blank, with film texture and edge shadows visible.

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