San Diego California-1962: View Of White Lighthouse Tower And Speedboat On A Clear Day

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

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View Of White Lighthouse Tower And Speedboat On A Clear Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a distant view of a white lighthouse tower on a rocky pier extending into calm blue waters. The scene is framed by dark, likely window, borders, with a hazy, overcast sky suggesting a cool, clear day. A small speedboat moves across the water in the final frame, leaving a white wake. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight blurriness, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of mid-century coastal life in San Diego.

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: 123808266

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 coastal California archive requests needing a quiet establishing view of San Diego harbor water, a distant lighthouse structure, and small craft movement.
Period detail: The color 8mm look, distant pier structure, and metadata-supported 1962 date place the clip in an early 1960s home-movie travel or shoreline record.
Home-movie behavior: The framing suggests a visitor filming from behind dark window or railing edges, holding on the distant shoreline feature and water traffic rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white lighthouse-like tower, rocky pier or breakwater, open blue water, hazy sky, dark vertical frame edges, a small boat wake, and a crane-like shape near the horizon.
Film character: Soft focus, modest grain, slight color fading, and steady but informal 8mm framing give the shot a physical home-movie texture suitable for archival use.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, coastal transition, harbor cutaway, or memory beat between family travel and San Diego shoreline material.
Historical context: The clip visually documents recreational or visitor attention to San Diego waterfront scenery without showing people, signage, or identifiable events.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any location or structure permissions separately.
Research search match: Search matches include 1962 San Diego 8mm waterfront, California lighthouse home movie, vintage harbor breakwater, and speedboat wake on coastal water.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel San Diego scenes, then other 1962 California coastal footage, then broader mid-century harbor, lighthouse, pier, and watercraft cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 San Diego home-movie frame showing a distant white lighthouse-like tower on a breakwater across calm blue water. — Distant white tower and breakwater seen across the water.

Distant San Diego waterfront view with a white tower on a long breakwater, seen through dark foreground borders. — White tower and breakwater held in a distant waterfront view.

1962 San Diego coastal frame with open water, a small boat wake, and a distant crane-like silhouette near the horizon. — Small wake crosses open water near a distant harbor structure.

San Diego 1962 home-movie frame showing open harbor water, a small white wake, and a distant crane-like form. — Open water with a small wake and distant waterfront machinery shape.

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