San Diego California-1962: Coastal View With Beach Houses And Rocky Shoreline

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

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Coastal View With Beach Houses And Rocky Shoreline — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched coastal scene in San Diego, California. The view, framed by a dark border, shows a rocky shoreline with waves breaking along a sandy beach. A row of modest beach houses lines the coast beneath a rugged, sun-baked hillside under a clear blue sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, with gentle waves rolling in and a bird briefly flying across the frame. This authentic slice of mid-century Americana evokes nostalgia and is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or retro-themed projects.

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: 123807082

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: Useful for 1960s coastal California atmosphere, especially documentary inserts needing a quiet beach community, rocky shoreline, and ocean movement from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The modest beach houses, undeveloped hillside, saturated color, and 8mm framing may show a mid-century Southern California shoreline as seen in 1962.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds a visitor-like coastal lookout view, valuing the shoreline, surf, and houses rather than staged action or posed subjects.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue ocean, breaking waves, rocky foreground, sandy beach, beach houses, steep hillside, clear sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, saturated blues and browns, soft focus, gate shadows, and slight handheld variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a coastal establishing insert, memory beat, travel transition, or cutaway between scenes about San Diego or California beach life.
Historical context: The view places modest shoreline housing directly against surf and hillside, offering visual context for mid-century coastal settlement without identifying a specific landmark.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are apparent, but visible residential exteriors and location claims should still be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1962 San Diego 8mm coastline, California beach houses home movie, rocky shoreline surf, or mid-century Southern California coast footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 San Diego coastal views, then broader California beach, ocean, and mid-century travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 San Diego coastal view with beach houses, rocky shoreline, surf, hillside, and clear blue sky in an 8mm frame. — Beach houses line the shore below a rugged hillside as waves break along the coast.

San Diego shoreline in 1962, showing ocean surf, beach houses, rocky slope, and a dark 8mm film border. — A row of beach houses sits between the surf and the rocky hillside.

1962 San Diego coastal frame with blue ocean, distant beach houses, rocky shore, hillside, and a bird crossing above the water. — The camera looks down the coast as a bird crosses over the blue water.

San Diego coast in 1962 with hillside, shoreline homes, deep blue ocean, white surf, and visible 8mm frame edges. — White surf breaks near the shoreline homes beneath the sunlit hillside.

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