San Diego California-1962: Sunrise or Sunset Over a Small Town with Electrical Lines

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

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Sunrise or Sunset Over a Small Town with Electrical Lines — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a serene sunrise or sunset over a small town in San Diego, California. The view is framed by dark silhouettes, likely a window or doorway, with power lines and utility poles stretching across the horizon. The sky glows with soft purples, blues, and warm golden light breaking through scattered clouds. The grainy texture and color shifts of the Super 8 footage evoke a nostalgic, mid-century Americana feel. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling about 1960s suburban 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: 123807420

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s San Diego or Southern California atmosphere, especially as a dawn, dusk, suburb, utility-line, or quiet town establishing shot.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, silhouetted utility poles, low hillside buildings, and window-framed view may show a mid-century residential edge of San Diego.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of someone filming a changing sky from indoors or a sheltered threshold rather than documenting a formal event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a clouded glowing sky, dark vertical window or doorway edges, utility poles, power lines, low rooftops, and a silhouetted hillside.
Film character: Soft grain, slight color shift, dark foreground exposure, and mild handheld instability give the footage a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quiet transition, memory beat, time-of-day insert, or suburban cutaway between more specific 1962 San Diego scenes.
Historical context: The view suggests ordinary residential infrastructure and a small-town horizon, but the frames do not identify a specific neighborhood or landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, though copyright status and any property-location concerns should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1962 8mm San Diego sunset, Southern California suburb twilight, vintage utility lines, and mid-century home-movie sky footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 San Diego material, then broader California suburb or sunrise-sunset sequences.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 8mm San Diego home-movie frame showing a glowing sky, silhouetted poles, power lines, rooftops, and dark window-like edges. — Twilight sky and utility lines seen through dark foreground framing.

1962 San Diego frame with blue-purple clouds, a low glowing horizon, utility poles, power lines, and silhouetted hillside buildings. — Layered clouds and a low town horizon with visible utility lines.

8mm frame from San Diego in 1962 showing cloud bands, a darkened small-town horizon, utility poles, wires, and window-like framing. — Dark town edge below a blue clouded sky and utility wires.

1962 San Diego 8mm frame showing a sunrise or sunset sky with silhouetted utility lines, low rooftops, hillside forms, and dark foreground borders. — Sunrise or sunset over a silhouetted town horizon and power lines.

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