Los Angeles California USA-1962: Seal Swimming Underwater In Pool

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

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Seal Swimming Underwater In Pool — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a seal swimming gracefully underwater in a pool. The turquoise water ripples with sunlight patterns, creating a dappled effect on the pool floor. The seal, a dark, sleek figure, moves fluidly through the water, its flippers propelling it with ease. A blue pool edge is visible in the foreground, grounding the scene in a man-made environment. The footage has a nostalgic, grainy quality typical of Super 8 home movies, offering a rare glimpse of a marine animal in a terrestrial setting. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 123754075

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: 1962 Los Angeles 8mm footage supporting archive requests for marine animal, zoo or aquarium-style pool cutaways in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The frames show a man-made turquoise pool and blue rail or pool edge, with the 1962 period primarily supported by the film metadata rather than visible signage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot home-movie viewpoint, looking down through water as the seal swims close to the pool edge without staged action or narration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark seal, rippling turquoise water, bright sun reflections, a blue pool edge, underwater shadows and rounded 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The scan carries an 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure and rounded gate edges that preserve the physical-film feel.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short animal cutaway, aquarium or park insert, underwater transition, or quiet memory beat within a 1960s Los Angeles sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually documents mid-century leisure or animal-exhibit viewing through home-movie footage, while the exact facility is not identifiable from the frames.
Research note: No people, logos or brands are visible, but copyright, location permissions and any animal-exhibit context should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1960s Los Angeles 8mm seal swimming, vintage underwater pool animal footage, and home movie marine animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then other 1962 Los Angeles footage, then broader vintage zoo, aquarium, pool or marine animal scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Los Angeles 8mm frame of a dark seal moving underwater in a turquoise pool, with sunlit ripples and a blue pool edge visible. — A seal swims through bright turquoise pool water near the blue edge.

1962 Los Angeles 8mm frame showing a seal turning underwater beside a blue pool edge, with bright ripple patterns across the water. — The seal turns near the pool edge under dappled sunlight.

1962 Los Angeles 8mm frame of a seal viewed from above underwater, its flippers visible against turquoise pool water and sun patterns. — The seal glides below the surface with flippers visible.

1962 Los Angeles 8mm frame showing a seal swimming underwater near the blue pool edge, with flippers extended in rippling light. — A seal passes through the pool as sunlight patterns shimmer around it.

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