San Diego California-1962: Scenic Ocean Views Of The Waves Lapping The Cliff At

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

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Scenic Ocean Views Of The Waves Lapping The Cliff At — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures scenic ocean views from a coastal vantage point. Rolling waves lap against the shore beneath a rugged cliff face, with a clear blue sky overhead. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering a nostalgic glimpse of a California coastline. The camera remains steady, framing the natural beauty of the Pacific coast with a soft, dreamy quality characteristic of mid-century home movies.

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: 123807095

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 California coastal atmosphere, especially documentary inserts, travel context, or reflective transitions needing ocean and cliffside scenery.
Period detail: The clip may show early-1960s home-movie color and framing, with no visible signs, vehicles, people, or landmarks to date the coastline beyond the supplied 1962 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The viewpoint feels like a visitor pausing at a coastal overlook to record surf, horizon, and cliff edges without staged action or narration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open ocean, rolling surf, a distant cliff face, rocky shoreline, blue sky, horizon line, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has saturated 8mm color, soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet frame edges that add physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, coastal establishing insert, scene transition, or memory beat between family or travel footage.
Historical context: The scene provides a mid-century home-movie view of the California coast as landscape and leisure scenery, without visible social activity or identifiable structures.
Research note: No people, logos, or clear private property are visible, but copyright and location identification should still be reviewed separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Searches for 1962 8mm San Diego coastline, vintage California ocean waves, home movie cliffside surf, and Pacific coastal scenery may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel footage, then other San Diego or 1962 California travel clips, then broader vintage ocean, cliffs, surf, and coastal landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 San Diego coastal view showing open ocean, surf near shore, a distant cliff, blue sky, and visible 8mm frame edges. — Waves roll along a cliff-backed shoreline under a clear blue sky.

1962 San Diego coastal frame with a broad Pacific horizon, cliff edge at left, white surf, and saturated blue sky. — A broad ocean horizon stretches beyond a cliffside shoreline.

1962 San Diego home-movie frame showing dark blue ocean, a level horizon, faint surf, and a small cliff edge at the left side. — The camera holds on the ocean with only a sliver of coastline visible.

1962 San Diego coastal view with open water, blue sky, a distant shoreline at left, and dark 8mm frame borders. — Open water fills the frame as the shoreline recedes to the left edge.

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