San Diego California-1962: Bay View With Houses On A Stretch And Cranes In The Background

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

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Bay View With Houses On A Stretch And Cranes In The... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a serene bay view from a moving boat. The camera pans across a waterfront scene featuring a large house with a red-tiled roof, surrounded by trees and other buildings. Cranes are visible in the background, suggesting industrial activity near the shore. The footage shows gentle water ripples under a clear blue sky, with the characteristic grain and color saturation of 8mm film. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of San Diego's coastal landscape during the early 1960s.

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: 123808394

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 archival requests needing early 1960s San Diego waterfront atmosphere, bay travel inserts, or coastal-industrial establishing material for documentary and editorial projects.
Period detail: The frames show 8mm-era color, low waterfront buildings, red-tiled roofs, small boats, and cranes that may show a working bay edge in San Diego in 1962.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective from a moving boat, holding briefly on shoreline houses, trees, moored vessels, and harbor cranes without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippling bay water, a distant shoreline, trees, low buildings, a red-roofed house, small boats, cranes, and open blue sky.
Film character: The footage carries saturated blue color, soft focus, gate edges, slight exposure variation, and visible 8mm grain that give it authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief bay-view insert, travel transition, shoreline cutaway, or reflective memory beat within a San Diego or coastal California sequence.
Historical context: The view places residential-looking waterfront structures near visible harbor equipment, suggesting the mixed leisure and working-shore character of the bay without identifying a specific site.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any property-identification concerns separately from likeness clearance.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1962 San Diego bay 8mm home movie, California waterfront houses and cranes, moving boat harbor view, and vintage coastal shoreline footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1962 San Diego waterfront material, then with broader California bay, harbor, boat-travel, and coastal-home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 San Diego bay view from an 8mm home movie, showing rippling water, distant waterfront buildings, trees, small boats, and harbor cranes. — Waterfront houses and cranes across the bay.

San Diego bay shoreline in 1962, with blue water in the foreground, low buildings and trees along the shore, and cranes visible behind them. — Shoreline buildings and cranes viewed from the water.

Moving-boat view of a San Diego waterfront in 1962, showing cranes, low buildings, trees, boats, and textured blue bay water. — Cranes and waterfront structures beyond the bay.

1962 San Diego bay footage showing a wider shoreline view with cranes, trees, boats, low waterfront buildings, and saturated blue water in the foreground. — Wide bay view with boats and harbor cranes.

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