San Pedro California-1962: Ocean View with Boat and Palm Trees

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

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Ocean View with Boat and Palm Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a serene ocean view from San Pedro, California. The frame, bordered by dark window trim, reveals a vast blue sea under a hazy sky, with distant mountains on the horizon. Silhouetted palm trees frame the bottom of the view. A small boat appears in the distance, leaving a white wake across the water. The footage displays natural film grain, scratches, and a distinct blue color cast, characteristic of 1960s home movies. This archival clip evokes nostalgia and tranquility, ideal for historical or editorial 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: 123808514

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: Useful for 1960s coastal California establishing shots, quiet travel inserts, or documentary cutaways needing a home-movie ocean view from San Pedro.
Period detail: The 8mm color, blue cast, soft exposure, window-edge framing, palms, and distant boat may show an early 1960s visitor view of the San Pedro coast.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged home-movie glance outward, holding on a calm seascape rather than a posed event or planned scenic setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark window trim, hazy ocean, distant hills or coastline, palm crowns, blue sky, film scratches, and a small boat wake.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm texture through visible grain, dust, scratches, slight softness, exposure variation, and a strong blue color cast.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a coastal establishing insert, reflective transition, travel-memory beat, or brief cutaway between San Pedro or harbor sequences.
Historical context: The view reflects leisure-era home filming of a coastal landscape, with palms and open water foregrounding place more than activity or identifiable landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any location or property implications still require normal clearance review.
Research search match: Searches it may satisfy include 1962 San Pedro ocean view, 8mm California coast, vintage palm trees and sea, distant boat wake, and blue home movie seascape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 San Pedro or harbor footage, then broader 1960s California coastal home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 San Pedro home-movie frame showing a hazy blue ocean view through dark window trim, with palm crowns along the lower edge. — Ocean and distant shoreline framed by window trim and palm tops.

1962 San Pedro coastal view with blue sea, distant hills, dark window trim, and silhouetted palm fronds near the bottom of the frame. — Hazy coastal horizon seen past dark window trim and palms.

1962 San Pedro seascape frame with a blue ocean horizon, soft distant landforms, palm crowns, and dark window edges. — Palm tops and blue water under a hazy horizon.

1962 San Pedro ocean view with a small distant boat wake, palm crowns along the bottom, hazy hills, and dark window trim. — A small boat wake crosses the distant blue water beyond palms.

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