San Diego California-1962: A Coastal Town With Homes, Palm Trees, and Blue Water

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

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A Coastal Town With Homes, Palm Trees, and Blue Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched coastal town in San Diego, California. Viewed through a window frame, the scene reveals a sprawling neighborhood of single-story homes with terracotta roofs, lush palm trees, and a vast blue ocean stretching to the horizon. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural film imperfections, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American lifestyle. A small object, possibly a kite or bird, drifts across the sky, adding subtle motion to the serene landscape.

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: 123807292

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: Supports requests for 1960s Southern California coastal neighborhood views for documentary, museum, education, or period-setting editorial use.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century single-story coastal homes, palm plantings, open lawns, and broad ocean views consistent with the supplied 1962 San Diego metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, looking outward through dark window or balcony divisions toward a quiet seaside neighborhood.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue ocean, distant land or coastline, palm trees, low homes, dry lawn areas, rooftops, sky, and dark vertical frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, flicker, and gate-edge darkness that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a brief establishing insert, memory beat, coastal transition, or contextual cutaway for San Diego or Southern California material.
Historical context: The view documents a residential coastal landscape with palms and low housing, offering visual context for mid-century seaside development without naming landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and possible private property context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1962 San Diego coastal homes, 8mm Southern California ocean view, vintage palm tree neighborhood, or home movie seaside town.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with San Diego 1962 material, then with broader 1960s California coastal neighborhood footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 San Diego coastal neighborhood seen from indoors or a balcony, with palms and low homes below a blue ocean horizon. — A home-movie view looks past dark frame edges toward palms, low rooftops, and the ocean beyond.

1962 San Diego coastal town view with single-story homes, palms, lawns, and a blue ocean horizon seen through a dark foreground divider. — Palms and low homes sit below a broad blue ocean horizon in a divided home-movie frame.

1962 San Diego home-movie frame showing a palm-lined coastal neighborhood, low rooftops, dry lawn, blue water, and distant shoreline. — The camera holds on a soft coastal neighborhood view with rooftops, palms, lawn, and ocean beyond.

1962 San Diego coastal residential view with palm trees, low homes, rooftops, blue ocean, distant land, and dark window-like edges. — A final frame holds the coastal neighborhood and palm trees against the ocean and distant land.

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