San Diego California-1962: Clouds Near The Horizon Close To Sunrise Or Sunset

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

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Clouds Near The Horizon Close To Sunrise Or Sunset — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic sunset or sunrise over an urban landscape in San Diego, California. The frame is bordered by dark silhouettes, suggesting a view from a window. Layered clouds glow with warm orange and yellow light against a deep blue-purple sky, with power lines and a tall antenna visible in silhouette. The film exhibits natural grain and slight color shifts typical of Super 8 footage from the early 1960s, evoking a nostalgic, contemplative mood. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling about mid-century American life.

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: 123807416

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 San Diego atmosphere, weather coverage, or a quiet archival transition suggesting dawn or dusk over an urban edge.
Period detail: The silhouetted antenna, utility lines, low roofline, and 8mm home-movie format may show a mid-century residential view rather than a named landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The framing feels like an unstaged home-movie glance through or beside a dark window frame toward changing sky color on the horizon.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include layered clouds, orange horizon light, blue-purple sky, utility poles, overhead wires, a tall antenna, dark rooflines, and black frame edges.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and blue-purple color shifts that read as physical-film texture from the period.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a contemplative insert, daybreak-or-sunset transition, weather cutaway, or memory beat between domestic or city scenes.
Historical context: The view places natural sky drama against modest urban infrastructure, suggesting everyday residential observation in early-1960s Southern California.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright and any property-context review should still be handled separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1962 8mm San Diego sky, vintage home movie sunset, sunrise clouds over city, utility lines silhouette, or early 1960s California weather footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1962 San Diego material, then with other vintage sky, weather, horizon, or urban-silhouette clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 San Diego 8mm frame showing blue-purple clouds and warm horizon light above silhouetted poles, wires, and a rooftop edge. — Glowing cloud layers over a silhouetted urban horizon, viewed through dark frame edges.

1962 San Diego home-movie frame with streaked clouds, warm low light, and silhouetted utility lines near the horizon. — Silhouetted antenna and wires stand against a streaked dawn-or-dusk sky.

1962 San Diego 8mm view of layered clouds and low orange light, with poles and wires silhouetted against the sky. — A dark foreground frame encloses a low glowing horizon and silhouetted utility lines.

1962 San Diego 8mm frame showing a brightening or fading horizon behind cloud bands, wires, antenna, and roofline silhouettes. — Cloud bands and horizon light sit behind a silhouetted residential edge with wires and antenna.

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