San Pedro California-1962: Film Overlooking The Sea With A View Of Palm Trees

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

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Film Overlooking The Sea With A View Of Palm Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched coastal view from an elevated perspective. The frame, bordered by dark film edges, reveals a quiet residential neighborhood with flat-roofed houses and a line of palm trees along the shoreline. The deep blue ocean stretches to the horizon under a clear sky, with subtle film grain, dust spots, and slight color fading characteristic of Super 8 footage. The scene evokes a nostalgic, mid-century California atmosphere, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or retro-themed projects.

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: 123808500

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 Pedro, 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: 1960s Southern California coastal home-movie footage for editors needing a quiet seaside neighborhood establishing shot or period cutaway.
Period detail: The scene may show mid-century low-rise coastal housing, palm-lined streets, and an elevated residential view toward the Pacific horizon.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged home-movie view, filmed from a fixed elevated vantage point rather than as a formal scenic postcard.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include ocean horizon, clear sky, palm trees, low houses, rooftops, sandy foreground, dark frame edges, and film dust.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries blue color shift, soft focus, grain, dust specks, dark gate edges, and slight exposure variation as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, transition, coastal cutaway, or reflective memory beat in a California sequence.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for a quiet 1962 San Pedro coastal neighborhood without making claims about a specific landmark or event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are evident, but copyright and any property-context questions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1962 San Pedro 8mm ocean view, 1960s California coastal homes, palm trees by the sea, and vintage home movie horizon.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 San Pedro footage, then broader California coast and palm-lined neighborhood views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 San Pedro home-movie frame showing a distant ocean horizon beyond low houses and palm trees from an elevated viewpoint. — Elevated view over coastal homes and palm trees toward the ocean horizon.

San Pedro coastal neighborhood in 1962, with palm trees and low houses below a broad blue ocean horizon. — Palm trees and low coastal homes beneath a clear ocean horizon.

Elevated 1962 San Pedro view across a low coastal neighborhood, palm trees, and the Pacific horizon on faded 8mm film. — Soft 8mm frame looking over rooftops and palms toward open water.

1962 San Pedro coastal view showing low houses, palms, and a blue ocean horizon within visible 8mm frame borders. — Coastal homes and palm trees framed by dark 8mm film borders.

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