San Diego California-1962: Classic Cars and Ocean Waves at Dusk and Day

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationSan Diego, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 California

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Classic Cars and Ocean Waves at Dusk and Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a quiet roadside scene in San Diego, California. The grainy, low-light footage shows classic American cars parked along a dusty road at dusk, with silhouetted hills and utility poles against a deep blue twilight sky. The scene transitions to a bright daytime view of ocean waves crashing against rocks, framed by a wooden structure. This authentic archival footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American life and coastal scenery.

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: 123807018

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: San Diego, 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 San Diego home-movie requests needing roadside classic cars, coastal approaches, or ocean-wave cutaways for documentary and editorial use.
Period detail: The parked cars, utility poles, dusk exposure, and 8mm color texture point to early-1960s travel footage, with San Diego and 1962 supported by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a casual roadside and shorefront viewpoint, preserving an unstaged travel impression rather than a planned scenic setup.
What appears in frame: Visible details include parked American cars, a dusty roadside, silhouetted hills, utility poles, a blue dusk sky, ocean surf, rocks, and a wooden structure.
Film character: The clip has a grainy 8mm look with soft focus, low-light blue tones, exposure variation, and slight handheld instability typical of home-movie filming.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a brief transition from road travel to coast, a memory beat, or an atmospheric insert for mid-century California settings.
Historical context: The footage visually connects car-based leisure travel with the San Diego coastline without documenting a specific event, race, or named landmark in the frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location, and any property concerns should still be reviewed before final use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1960s San Diego 8mm home movie, classic cars roadside at dusk, California coast waves, and vintage travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1962 San Diego or California coastal footage, then with broader road-trip and beach-recreation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 San Diego home-movie frame showing parked cars, utility poles, and dark hills under a blue dusk sky. — Classic cars sit beside a roadside as hills and utility poles fall into dusk silhouette.

Grainy 8mm view of a San Diego roadside at dusk, with classic cars and utility poles against dark hills. — A roadside scene holds on parked cars and utility poles beneath a deep blue evening sky.

Low-light 8mm frame of a 1962 San Diego roadside, with cars and silhouetted hills visible through heavy grain. — The camera lingers on the roadside as cars and hills soften in the low evening exposure.

Daytime San Diego coastal frame showing waves breaking over rocks, partly framed by a wooden structure. — White surf breaks against rocks, viewed from beside a simple wooden structure on the shore.

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