San Diego California-1962: Sunrise Over The Coastal Hills

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

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Sunrise Over The Coastal Hills — Clip Details

Sunrise over coastal hills in San Diego, California, captured on 8mm film in 1962. The sun emerges from behind the horizon, casting golden light across a layered sky of purple and blue clouds. Silhouetted hills and a palm tree frame the right side of the view, with power lines and a distant tower visible against the dawn. The footage shows natural film grain and subtle camera movement, evoking a quiet, nostalgic moment from a vintage home movie.

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: 123807443

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: 1960s San Diego home-movie sunrise footage for documentary inserts, place-setting transitions, or reflective coastal atmosphere.
Period detail: Visible era clues are limited to the 8mm home-movie format, soft color rendition, silhouetted utility lines, a distant tower, and palm-lined hillside.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged observer's view, holding on a dawn horizon as the sun rises behind the coastal hills.
What appears in frame: The frames show a low sun, layered blue and purple clouds, dark coastal hills, a palm silhouette, power lines, a distant tower, and window-like dark edges.
Film character: Natural 8mm grain, slight exposure bloom around the sun, soft focus, and minor handheld movement give the footage its physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a dawn transition, quiet memory beat, regional establishing insert, or passage-of-time cutaway.
Historical context: The view documents a residential or hillside coastal outlook in San Diego without identifying a specific neighborhood, landmark, or event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or location permissions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1962 San Diego sunrise, 8mm coastal hills, California home movie dawn, and vintage palm silhouette.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then San Diego or 1962 California material, then broader sunrise, coastal, or home-movie atmosphere.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 8mm view of a San Diego sunrise, with the sun near the horizon behind silhouetted coastal hills and cloud bands. — The sun begins to rise behind dark coastal hills under layered morning clouds.

San Diego 1962 home-movie frame showing a low sunrise, silhouetted hillside, distant tower, and layered blue-gray clouds. — A low sun breaks through the horizon line beside silhouetted hillside forms.

1962 San Diego 8mm frame with bright sunrise flare, dark hillside, palm silhouette, and blue-purple cloud layers. — The rising sun flares near the hillside while a palm silhouette frames the view.

Late frame of the 1962 San Diego sunrise, with golden flare at the horizon, dark hillside, palm silhouette, and cloud layers. — Golden sunrise light intensifies beneath the cloud bands and beside the silhouetted palm.

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