San Diego California-1962: Pier With Boat And Water Tower On Bright Sea

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

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Pier With Boat And Water Tower On Bright Sea — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched waterfront scene in San Diego, California. The clip shows a long pier extending into calm blue water, with a distinctive building featuring a pointed roof and a water tower. Palm trees and tall, slender structures resembling totem poles or decorative poles line the pier. A white passenger boat is visible at the dock. The footage has the characteristic grain, color saturation, and dark borders of Super 8 film, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century coastal life.

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: 123808470

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 San Diego waterfront requests needing a brief 8mm establishing view of a pier, docked boat, and calm harbor water.
Period detail: The scene may show mid-century waterfront architecture, decorative pier poles, palm plantings, and a small water tower visible along a San Diego pier.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from across the water with a casual visitor-shot perspective, emphasizing place and atmosphere rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue harbor water, a long pier on pilings, a pointed-roof pier building, a water tower, palms or decorative poles, and a docked white boat.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries saturated blues, soft focus, gate-edge darkness, frame jitter, and grain that support its home-movie archival texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a short coastal insert, location transition, harbor cutaway, or memory beat within a San Diego or California sequence.
Historical context: The clip records leisure-era waterfront scenery without visible crowds, foregrounding architecture, water, and dockside forms rather than identifiable individuals.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still assess copyright status and any location or property permissions for their project.
Research search match: Search matches include 1962 San Diego 8mm pier footage, California harbor home movie, waterfront water tower, docked passenger boat, and vintage coastal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 San Diego waterfront clips, then broader California coast, harbor, pier, or boat footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 San Diego waterfront view with a pier, pointed-roof structure, decorative poles, and a white boat beside calm blue water. — A pier and docked boat sit across blue harbor water in the opening frame.

San Diego pier scene from 1962 showing a low waterfront structure, small water tower, and dark blue harbor water. — The pier building and water tower are centered across the water.

Vintage 8mm San Diego harbor view with the pier, water tower, pointed-roof building, and decorative vertical poles. — The camera holds on the pier and its vertical structures above the harbor.

1962 San Diego waterfront frame with a pier on pilings, pointed-roof building, small water tower, and part of a boat at right. — A partial boat enters the right edge while the pier remains across the water.

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