San Diego California-1962: The Vast Beach Near The Restaurant The Waves Are

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

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The Vast Beach Near The Restaurant The Waves Are — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic coastal view from a shaded structure, likely a hotel or motel balcony overlooking the Pacific. The deep blue ocean churns with white-capped waves crashing against dark rocks below. The frame is bordered by dark silhouettes of the building's pillars and roofline, creating a natural vignette. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight flicker, evoking a nostalgic 1960s vacation memory. The scene is bathed in bright daylight, with a clear blue sky above the vast horizon. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects about mid-century American beach 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: 123807034

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s San Diego coastal home-movie footage can serve documentary or museum requests for mid-century Pacific shoreline views and vacation-era beach atmosphere.
Period detail: The 8mm color, shaded structural framing, and metadata-supported 1962 San Diego setting may show a visitor's view from a seaside building overlooking surf and rocks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged traveler perspective, watching waves from a protected balcony or porch rather than filming a posed beach scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blue ocean horizon, white breaking surf, dark shoreline rocks, vertical building posts, roof overhang shadows, and bright daylight sky.
Film character: The footage has 8mm grain, slight flicker, soft contrast, and blue-green color shifts that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a short coastal insert, location-establishing cutaway, transition beat, or reflective vacation-memory shot.
Historical context: The scene places a 1960s home-movie camera at the edge of a Southern California shoreline, emphasizing leisure observation over public activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location permissions, and any property-related concerns should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1962 San Diego beach footage, 8mm Pacific surf, vintage California coastline, and home movie ocean waves.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel coastal shots, then with 1962 San Diego footage, then with broader 1960s California beach and travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 San Diego coastal view with white surf, blue ocean horizon, and dark building posts framing the shoreline. — Surf breaks along a rocky shoreline below a shaded seaside structure.

A 1962 San Diego ocean view shows churning Pacific surf framed by dark posts and a roofline shadow. — White surf churns below the shaded edge of a coastal building.

Foamy Pacific waves and a blue horizon are filmed from a shaded seaside structure in San Diego in 1962. — A broad band of foam spreads across the shoreline below the horizon.

San Diego surf in 1962 rolls past dark rocks, with shaded structural posts enclosing the home-movie view. — Dark posts frame the final view of surf moving along the rocky coast.

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