San Diego California-1962: A Cargo Ship Sails Near Industrial Cityscape

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

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A Cargo Ship Sails Near Industrial Cityscape — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a large cargo ship sailing across the water, viewed through a window frame. The vessel, with a white superstructure and red hull, moves steadily across the blue sea under a hazy sky. In the distance, an industrial cityscape with tall towers and buildings lines the horizon. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight camera shake, evoking a nostalgic mid-century maritime scene. This archival clip offers authentic 1960s Americana for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 123808289

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: 1962 San Diego harbor footage for documentary or educational edits needing a brief mid-century maritime and industrial waterfront cutaway.
Period detail: The red-hulled cargo ship, hazy horizon, and distant industrial towers may show early 1960s port infrastructure in San Diego.
Home-movie behavior: The view through dark window frames gives the scene a visitor-shot home-movie perspective from indoors or a sheltered vantage point near the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a cargo ship offshore, blue water, hazy sky, dark window mullions, distant shoreline structures, and an industrial tower.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, slight shake, and exposure shifts typical of handheld home-movie film.
Edit role: Use as a short maritime insert, harbor establishing cutaway, transition beat, or period texture between broader 1960s California sequences.
Historical context: The clip provides visual context for a working waterfront, with shipping traffic and industrial structures seen from across the water.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but vessel identity and waterfront property context should be checked separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1962 San Diego harbor 8mm, cargo ship home movie, California waterfront industry, and mid-century port footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel harbor views, then other 1962 San Diego clips, then broader maritime, shipping, and industrial waterfront material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 San Diego harbor view of a red-hulled cargo ship offshore, framed by dark window mullions under a hazy sky. — A cargo ship moves across the water beyond dark window frames.

A cargo ship crosses San Diego waters in 1962, with a faint industrial shoreline visible through the haze. — The red-hulled vessel continues past the distant waterfront.

The 8mm frame shows the cargo ship farther across blue water, partly composed against dark window framing. — The ship remains offshore as the handheld camera holds the harbor view.

A San Diego waterfront industrial structure and tall tower appear across the water in the final 1962 home-movie frame. — The camera shifts toward industrial shoreline structures across the harbor.

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