San Diego California-1962: A Person Driving Past Admiring Town Sites

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

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A Person Driving Past Admiring Town Sites — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a drive through a bustling San Diego harbor. The camera moves steadily along a paved road, offering a view of fishing boats, cranes, and industrial structures under a clear blue sky. Yellow barrels and a red curb line the roadside, while the film's characteristic grain and color saturation evoke a strong sense of mid-century Americana. The footage provides authentic archival material of a working port, ideal for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical storytelling.

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: 123807535

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 harbor drive-by footage for documentary inserts, port history sequences, or mid-century California urban-industrial context.
Period detail: The frames show paved harbor roads, fishing boats, cranes, utility poles, red curbs, and yellow roadside barrels that fit a working waterfront setting in the early 1960s.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged passenger or driver-side home-movie glimpse, recording the harbor from a moving vehicle rather than a planned survey shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include harbor roadways, moored boats, dock structures, cranes, mast silhouettes, utility poles, yellow barrels, red curb paint, and open blue sky.
Film character: The 8mm image has saturated color, soft focus, visible grain, slight gate framing, and handheld travel motion that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, waterfront cutaway, or memory beat in a sequence about San Diego or working ports.
Historical context: The footage visually places a private home-movie camera beside an active harbor landscape, showing everyday movement past maritime and industrial infrastructure.
Research note: No people, faces, readable logos, or audible music are evident, but copyright, location, vessel identity, and property considerations should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1962 San Diego harbor drive, 8mm California port footage, vintage waterfront road scene, and mid-century fishing boats and cranes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 San Diego material, then broader 1960s California harbor, roadway, and industrial waterfront footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 8mm view from a moving road beside San Diego harbor, with boats, cranes, dock structures, utility poles, and blue sky. — A moving roadside view passes boats and cranes along the San Diego harbor.

1962 San Diego harbor road scene showing yellow roadside barrels, moored boats, cranes, mast-like structures, and industrial waterfront equipment. — Yellow barrels and a red curb line the road beside boats and harbor equipment.

San Diego harbor drive-by in 1962, with a paved road in the foreground and boats, cranes, and tall dockside structures beyond it. — The camera continues past a working waterfront with boats and cranes beyond the road.

1962 8mm harbor frame showing dock pavement, moored boats, crane booms, low waterfront buildings, and a clear blue sky in San Diego. — A dockside view shows boats and crane booms along the waterfront.

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