Los Angeles California USA-1962: Diver Exploring Coral Reef

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

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Diver Exploring Coral Reef — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage underwater footage captures a scuba diver exploring a coral reef in Los Angeles, California. The grainy, blue-tinted imagery shows divers in full gear moving through the water, surrounded by schools of fish and marine life. Bubbles rise toward the surface as the camera follows the diver's movements, offering a rare glimpse of mid-century recreational diving. The footage has a nostalgic, authentic home movie quality, with natural film grain and slight color shifts typical of 8mm home movies from the era. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling about early scuba culture.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: 123753508

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: 1960s 8mm underwater footage suited to documentary requests for recreational scuba, marine life, and vintage coastal leisure scenes.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century scuba gear, mask, tank, fins, and handheld underwater filming consistent with the supplied 1962 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, following a diver and nearby fish at close range rather than presenting a formal wildlife survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a scuba diver, mask and air hose, rising bubbles, fish, underwater rocks or reef texture, blue-green water, and soft 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The scan carries dense 8mm grain, blue-green color shift, low underwater contrast, gate edges, and handheld framing that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, underwater transition, recreational-diving cutaway, or memory beat in a sequence about coastal leisure or early scuba culture.
Historical context: The scene visually supports a 1960s recreational diving context, with underwater home-movie filming focused on a diver moving among fish and reef-like surroundings.
Research note: No faces, logos, music, or private property are evident from the stills, but copyright, location accuracy, and any likeness or property issues should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1960s 8mm scuba diving, vintage underwater home movie, Los Angeles underwater fish footage, and mid-century recreational diving.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1962 Los Angeles coastal footage, and then with broader vintage scuba or underwater wildlife material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Los Angeles 8mm underwater footage showing fish and reef-like surroundings in soft blue-green light. — Fish and reef-like forms appear through grainy blue-green underwater 8mm footage.

1962 Los Angeles 8mm frame of a scuba diver moving underwater, with bubbles rising and fish in the surrounding water. — A scuba diver moves through blue-tinted water as bubbles rise around nearby fish.

Close 1962 8mm underwater view of scuba equipment, bubbles, and fish in blue-green water. — The camera passes close to scuba gear while small fish and bubbles fill the water.

1962 Los Angeles 8mm underwater frame with bubbles rising through blue water and fish visible near the edge. — Bubbles rise through the water as fish pass near the edge of the grainy frame.

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