San Pedro California-1962: Row Of Palm Trees Face The Ocean Beach

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

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Row Of Palm Trees Face The Ocean Beach — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched coastal view from an elevated perspective. The frame reveals a row of palm trees lining a beachfront, with residential houses nestled below and the deep blue ocean stretching to the horizon. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: warm color grading, film grain, and subtle scratches, evoking a nostalgic 1960s California atmosphere. The camera remains steady, offering a serene, timeless glimpse of a mid-century seaside community.

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: 123808505

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s Southern California coastal establishing shots, beach-community inserts, or documentary sequences needing elevated home-movie views of palms, houses, and ocean.
Period detail: The visible low-rise homes, beachfront palms, saturated color, and 8mm scan character support the supplied 1962 San Pedro context without identifying a specific landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot or resident-shot feel, observing the coastline from an elevated vantage rather than staging action or presenting a formal travel view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blue ocean horizon, rows of palm trees, low residential rooftops, a sandy or pale foreground area, sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm texture with soft focus, blue color cast, gate edges, dust, scratches, and slight exposure variation that read as physical-film evidence.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a coastal establishing insert, memory transition, location cutaway, or quiet visual bridge in a mid-century California sequence.
Historical context: The view documents a seaside residential area with palms and ocean access, offering visual context for everyday coastal California landscapes in the early 1960s.
Research note: No people, logos, or legible brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any private-property implications should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Search matches include 1962 8mm San Pedro coast, vintage California palm trees by ocean, elevated home movie beach view, and 1960s seaside residential footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 San Pedro or Los Angeles Harbor-area footage, then broader California coast and palm-lined beach material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 San Pedro 8mm frame showing palms and low rooftops below a blue ocean horizon from an elevated coastal vantage. — Elevated view over beachfront palms and residential rooftops toward the ocean horizon.

San Pedro coastal home-movie frame with palm trees, houses, and a blue ocean horizon, bordered by the 8mm film frame. — Palm-lined residential coast seen from above, with the ocean stretching behind it.

Elevated 1962 San Pedro view of coastal palms, low homes, and ocean, with dust and scratches visible in the 8mm scan. — Residential rooftops and palms line the coast beneath a blue ocean horizon.

Final 8mm frame from the San Pedro coastal view, emphasizing blue ocean and sky with palm fronds along the lower edge. — The shot drifts toward open ocean and sky, with palm fronds entering the lower frame.

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