San Diego County California-1968: Large Wave From The Ocean Coming To A Rocky Shore

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Year1968
Decade1960s
LocationSan Diego, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 San Diego California

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Large Wave From The Ocean Coming To A Rocky Shore — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic ocean wave crashing against a rocky shoreline in San Diego County, California. The footage, framed by dark window borders, shows the wave building and breaking with white foam, while distant landforms appear on the horizon. The scene has a nostalgic, slightly faded color palette with prominent blue and purple tones, characteristic of 1960s home movie film. The camera remains steady, offering a contemplative view of the natural coastal power. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects about mid-century American life and nature.

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: 124629590

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 1333 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: #1
Reel-level year note: 1968
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1968 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s coastal California home-movie footage for documentary inserts, nature cutaways, or period atmosphere around San Diego County shoreline scenes.
Period detail: The 8mm frame borders, faded color, and steady amateur framing support a late-1960s home-movie reading, with no visible landmarks to identify the exact shore.
Home-movie behavior: The clip reflects an unstaged observer pausing on surf and rocks, valuing the movement of a breaking wave rather than a posed vacation moment.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open ocean, white breaking surf, dark rocky shoreline, distant horizon, faint offshore landforms, and black film-frame borders.
Film character: Soft focus, blue-purple color shift, minor dust, and contact-frame borders give the footage a recognizable 8mm archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a coastal cutaway, reflective transition, memory beat, or brief visual punctuation for ocean power and shoreline atmosphere.
Historical context: The scene documents a mid-century amateur view of Southern California coast without visible people, signage, vehicles, or built environment in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, logos, music, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and confirm location needs for their project.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1968 San Diego County ocean wave, vintage 8mm rocky shore, 1960s California surf, and home movie coastal footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1968 San Diego County coastal clips, then broader rocky-shore and ocean-surf material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 8mm San Diego County coastal view of a white wave breaking offshore beyond dark rocks and a blue horizon. — A large wave begins to break offshore near a rocky California shoreline.

1968 8mm coastal footage shows white surf rolling across the ocean with a dark film-frame divider at center. — White surf rolls across the water as the wave continues breaking offshore.

1968 San Diego County 8mm frame with a foamy surf line, dark shoreline rocks, and a faint offshore form on the horizon. — Foam spreads near the rocks, with a faint landform or vessel-like shape in the distance.

1968 8mm coastal frame from San Diego County showing white foam against dark rocks and a faint distant form offshore. — The wave breaks closer to the rocky shoreline, leaving bright foam against the darker coast.

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