San Diego California-1962: Boating Excursion Along Coastline

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

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Boating Excursion Along Coastline — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a serene boating excursion along the San Diego coastline. The footage, viewed through a film frame border, shows a calm ocean with a distant shoreline featuring a lighthouse, industrial structures, and a hillside community. The grainy, slightly faded color palette with dominant blues and purples evokes a nostalgic 1960s atmosphere. The camera remains steady, offering a tranquil view of the cityscape from the water, perfect for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic 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: 123808306

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 coastal boating footage for documentary or editorial sequences needing a visitor's offshore view of shoreline, bay, and distant city-edge development.
Period detail: The frames show 8mm color views from the water, with a suspension bridge-like structure, industrial waterfront forms, and hillside housing that may reflect early-1960s coastal San Diego.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot boating perspective, calmly observing shoreline features through the camera gate rather than staging people or action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue water, hazy sky, distant shoreline, a red bridge or tower structure, industrial waterfront shapes, hillside homes, and black film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries a soft 8mm home-movie texture with visible grain, mild fading, blue-purple color shift, and steady but informal framing from a moving boat.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a coastal establishing insert, travel transition, harbor cutaway, or reflective memory beat within a San Diego or California shoreline sequence.
Historical context: The view places leisure boating in relation to a working waterfront and hillside community, offering visual context for mid-century coastal urban scenery without identifying specific events.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any identifiable structures or property context should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1962 San Diego 8mm boating footage, vintage California coastline from boat, home movie harbor view, and 1960s coastal city shoreline.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 San Diego coastal footage, then broader 1960s California boating or shoreline home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 San Diego coastal view from a boat, showing blue water, hazy sky, distant industrial shoreline, and a red bridge or tower structure. — Offshore view of a distant waterfront and red bridge-like structure across the water.

1962 San Diego shoreline seen from the water, with a hillside community in the distance and dark film-frame borders visible. — Hillside coastal neighborhood viewed across open water from the boat.

1962 San Diego coastal hillside across the water, with small distant buildings and a soft, grainy 8mm color image. — Distant coastal hillside and buildings seen over the water.

1962 San Diego shoreline from a boating excursion, showing blue water, a low hillside, and distant structures along the coast. — Coastal hillside and shoreline structures viewed from offshore.

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