San Pedro California-1962: Typical Day By The Water

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

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Typical Day By The Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched day at the San Pedro harbor. The view, framed by a dark border, shows a wide expanse of water with distant ships and cranes, a long white building, and parked cars along the shore. The foreground features dry grass and a simple fence, with a classic car briefly visible. The footage exhibits natural film grain, slight color fading, and a nostalgic, observational quality, offering a glimpse into 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: 123808540

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: This clip supports 1960s Southern California harbor, waterfront, and coastal industry requests for documentary inserts, educational sequences, and period atmosphere.
Period detail: The parked cars, simple fence line, long low waterfront building, distant cranes, and 8mm color stock may show early-1960s San Pedro harbor surroundings.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, observing the harbor from a dry grassy overlook without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible details include harbor water, distant ships, cranes, a long pale building, parked cars, dry grass, fence posts, and dark film-gate borders.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm grain, soft focus, color fading, exposure variation, and handheld framing that give the harbor view authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing cutaway, transition, memory beat, or waterfront context insert for mid-century Los Angeles harbor material.
Historical context: The frames place everyday shoreline viewing beside port infrastructure, suggesting a casual record of coastal industry and open waterfront space.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or port-location permissions should still be verified by production.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1962 San Pedro harbor 8mm, Southern California waterfront home movie, Los Angeles harbor ships cranes, and vintage coastal port footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 San Pedro material, then broader 1960s harbor, shoreline, and coastal industry footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 San Pedro harbor view from a grassy overlook, with water, distant cranes, a long pale building, parked cars, and fence posts. — Harbor infrastructure and parked cars seen across dry shoreline grass.

Wide 1962 San Pedro harbor frame showing distant ships and cranes beyond a shoreline building, parked cars, dry grass, and dark film edges. — Distant ships and cranes line the harbor beyond parked cars and shoreline grass.

San Pedro harbor shoreline in 1962 with a pale waterfront building, parked cars, water, distant cranes, dry vegetation, and fence posts. — A low waterfront building and parked cars sit between dry grass and harbor water.

Overexposed 1962 San Pedro harbor frame with bright dry foreground, water, faint distant port structures, and dark 8mm frame borders. — Bright exposure washes the shoreline while faint port structures remain visible across the water.

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