San Diego California-1962: A Person Driving Down A Quiet And Isolated Coastal Road

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

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A Person Driving Down A Quiet And Isolated Coastal Road — Clip Details

Shot from inside a vehicle in 1962, this vintage 8mm film captures a scenic drive along a winding coastal road in San Diego, California. The view through the car window shows a sun-drenched asphalt road with double yellow lines, flanked by dry, grassy hills and utility poles. The Pacific Ocean stretches to the horizon under a clear blue sky, with a white car visible ahead. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight motion blur, and a nostalgic, sun-bleached color palette, evoking a sense of mid-century American road travel and coastal exploration.

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: 123807210

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 road-travel requests needing real 8mm vehicle POV footage for documentary, education, or period atmosphere.
Period detail: The double yellow road markings, utility poles, older roadside grading, and car forms may show early-1960s coastal driving conditions near San Diego.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a passenger filming through a moving car window during a quiet coastal drive.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a winding two-lane asphalt road, double yellow center lines, ocean horizon, dry hillsides, utility poles, roadside curb, and a white car ahead.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, mild motion blur, gate edges, dust specks, and sun-faded coastal color.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a road-trip insert, coastal transition, travel-memory beat, or establishing cutaway for mid-century Southern California movement.
Historical context: The scene places everyday automobile travel beside open coastal terrain, with sparse traffic and undeveloped roadside edges visible in the frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in the supplied frames, but copyright, location, and incidental vehicle identification should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Searches this may match include 1962 San Diego coastal road 8mm, vintage California driving POV, Pacific ocean road home movie, and 1960s car travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other San Diego or 1962 California clips, then broader coastal driving and mid-century road-travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 San Diego coastal road seen from a vehicle, with double yellow lines, utility poles, dry hillside, and ocean beyond. — Vehicle POV on a quiet coastal road with dry roadside terrain and the Pacific horizon ahead.

Vehicle POV along a 1962 San Diego coastal road, showing a bend, roadside poles, ocean horizon, and a white car ahead. — The road curves toward the coast, with sparse traffic and utility poles along the shoulder.

1962 San Diego vehicle POV showing an oncoming car on a coastal two-lane road with ocean, poles, and dry roadside vegetation. — An oncoming car passes as the road follows the coastal edge above the water.

1962 San Diego coastal driving view with an open two-lane road, Pacific horizon, roadside slope, and utility poles. — The road opens toward the coastline, with low roadside growth and the ocean stretching across the background.

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