San Diego California-1962: Scenic View From Under The Dock

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

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Scenic View From Under The Dock — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a scenic coastal view from beneath a wooden pier in San Diego, California. The dark, shadowed interior of the dock frames the bright blue ocean and sky beyond, with waves breaking along the shore. The footage shows a quiet, sun-drenched beachfront with small houses nestled against a rocky hillside, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century Southern California life. The grainy texture and natural color palette of the Super 8 film enhance its authentic, archival quality.

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: 123807065

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 Southern California coastal home-movie footage suited for documentary inserts about beach travel, seaside neighborhoods, or quiet oceanfront atmosphere.
Period detail: The small beach houses below a rocky hillside and the wooden pier structure may show mid-century San Diego coastal development as seen by a visitor with an 8mm camera.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the shoreline from beneath a pier and then from the open coast, giving the clip the informal perspective of a traveler pausing to frame the view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pier pilings, shadowed dock beams, bright surf, blue ocean, rocky hillside, beach houses, shoreline, and driftwood or coastal debris.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, high-contrast shadows, saturated blue water, and slight handheld framing that preserve the home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a coastal establishing insert, a transition into a beach sequence, or a memory beat for Southern California travel.
Historical context: The footage documents a quiet beachfront and hillside settlement from a personal viewpoint without showing people, vehicles, signage, or identifiable events.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright and any location or property considerations should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1962 San Diego 8mm beach footage, vintage California pier view, home movie ocean shoreline, and 1960s coastal neighborhood.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 San Diego coastal footage, then broader 1960s California beach and ocean scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 San Diego home-movie frame looking from beneath a wooden pier toward bright surf and open water. — Dark pier pilings frame the ocean and breaking waves beyond.

Shadowed 8mm view beneath a San Diego pier, with vertical supports silhouetted against surf and blue water. — The camera looks through pier supports toward the sunlit ocean.

1962 San Diego coastal view showing small beach houses, a rocky hillside, shoreline, and blue ocean. — Beach houses sit along the shore beneath a rocky hillside.

Vintage 8mm San Diego shoreline frame with hillside, beach houses, blue ocean, and surf along the coast. — A sunlit coastal settlement borders the ocean below the hillside.

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