San Diego California-1962: View Of An Industrial Waterfront From A Ship With

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

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View Of An Industrial Waterfront From A Ship With — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a view of an industrial waterfront from a ship. The scene features a prominent water tower, low-rise buildings, and a rocky shoreline under a clear blue sky. The footage shows gentle water movement and distant birds flying, with a dark frame border suggesting a window or porthole view. The image has the characteristic grain and color saturation of mid-century home movies, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel.

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: 123808381

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: 1962 8mm waterfront material for edits needing a brief San Diego industrial harbor view from a moving vessel.
Period detail: The low industrial shoreline, elevated water tower, saturated color, and 8mm framing support a mid-century harbor setting without identifying a specific facility.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot shipboard perspective, looking past a dark window or porthole edge toward the waterfront rather than staging the scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippling blue water, a rocky shoreline, low buildings, a tall water tower, distant utility structures, birds in flight, and dark frame edges.
Film character: The footage has dense 8mm grain, strong blue saturation, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and handheld shipboard steadiness typical of home-movie scans.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, harbor transition, travel cutaway, or memory beat between broader San Diego or maritime scenes.
Historical context: The view documents a working waterfront landscape as seen by a traveler in 1962, with industrial forms and open shoreline visible from the water.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but building and location identification should be reviewed separately from copyright clearance.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1960s San Diego harbor 8mm, industrial waterfront from ship, water tower shoreline home movie, and vintage California port view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel shipboard shots, then other San Diego 1962 material, then broader 1960s harbor, waterfront, or maritime travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 San Diego waterfront seen from a ship, with rippling water, low buildings, a tall water tower, and dark frame edges. — Shipboard view across the water toward an industrial shoreline and elevated water tower.

1962 San Diego harbor view with a distant bird, industrial buildings, rocky shoreline, and a tall water tower beyond blue water. — A bird crosses above the industrial waterfront and water tower seen from the vessel.

1962 San Diego waterfront from shipboard, showing a bird over the shoreline, low buildings, and the water tower set back from the water. — Shipboard home-movie frame with a bird flying over the industrial harbor shoreline.

1962 San Diego industrial waterfront viewed across the harbor, with low buildings, a water tower, distant structures, and dark film-frame edges. — The shoreline and water tower remain in view as the ship passes across the harbor.

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