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San Francisco California-1963: Family Fishing at Pier with Boat Passing

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  • Year1963
  • Decade1960s
  • LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1963 · San Francisco, California, United States
  • StatusDirect License

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Family Fishing at Pier with Boat Passing — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1963, this vintage home movie captures a fishing boat moving across the water, viewed from a pier. Two fishing rods extend into the frame, suggesting a family fishing trip. The boat, a small tug, leaves a white wake as it passes. The footage shows classic Super 8 grain and color, with a dark frame border. The final frames focus on the shimmering water surface, reflecting light. This authentic archival clip evokes 1960s Americana and coastal leisure.

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
123774995

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 1112 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label
knotts berry farm,zoo,san diego,mary,park,phillip
Reel-level year note
1963
Reel-level location note
california
Date
1963 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
San Francisco, 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

  • water
  • aquatic
  • fishing pole
  • wet
  • family
  • fishing
  • pier
  • summer
  • small
  • tug
  • boat
  • passing
  • objects
  • SAN francisco california
  • 1963
  • 1963 family fishing
  • vintage 8mm film
  • San Francisco 1963
  • fishing boat passing
  • Super 8 home movie
  • 1960s fishing trip
  • small tug boat
  • pier fishing
  • vintage fishing footage
  • retro 1960s
  • classic home movie
  • archival 8mm
  • fishing rods
  • ocean water
  • 1960s nostalgia
  • vintage footage
  • 8mm film
  • old film
  • documentary footage
  • editorial use

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1960s San Francisco coastal leisure sequences needing home-movie fishing, pier, small boat, or water cutaways.
Period detail
The 8mm color stock, fishing rods, small working boat, and metadata-supported 1963 San Francisco setting place the scene in early-1960s waterfront life.
Home-movie behavior
The viewpoint feels like a family fishing moment from a pier, with rods held into frame while attention shifts from the passing boat to sunlit water.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include two fishing rods, a small boat, open bay water, white wake, dark film-frame borders, and bright reflections on the water surface.
Film character
The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight handheld framing, dark edge borders, and exposure shifts that give it physical home-movie texture.
Edit role
An editor could use it as a brief waterfront insert, fishing cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition from activity on a pier to reflective water.
Historical context
The footage documents everyday recreational fishing beside active bay traffic, showing leisure and working-water movement in the same home-movie view.
Research note
People are flagged for the clip, though faces are not discernible in these stills; review copyright status separately from likeness and location concerns.
Research search match
Searches may include 1963 San Francisco 8mm fishing pier, family fishing home movie, small boat passing on bay, or vintage waterfront water reflections.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1963 San Francisco waterfront footage, then broader 1960s fishing, boating, pier, and bay-water scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1963 San Francisco home-movie view from a pier as a small boat passes across bay water behind two fishing rods.

Fishing rods frame a small boat moving across the water and leaving a white wake.

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A small boat moves away across San Francisco bay water in this 1963 8mm frame, with fishing rods visible from the pier viewpoint.

The boat turns across the water while rods extend from the foreground.

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The camera turns down to shimmering bay water, with bright reflections and dark 8mm frame borders visible.

Bright points of reflected light scatter across the rippling water surface.

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A close home-movie view of reflective bay water closes the clip, with grain, soft exposure, and dark frame edges.

The final frame lingers on textured water and scattered highlights.

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