San Diego County California-1968: Empty Swimming Pool on Cloudy Day

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

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Empty Swimming Pool on Cloudy Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a quiet, overcast day at an empty swimming pool in San Diego County, California. The footage shows a calm pool area with a diving board, a life preserver on the wall, and a low fence surrounding the pool. The scene is bathed in soft, diffused light under a cloudy sky, with a grassy hill in the background. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and subtle camera movement, evoking a nostalgic, candid moment from a mid-century family vacation. Ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects exploring 1960s Americana.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124630469

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s Southern California home-movie pool-area cutaway for documentary, editorial, museum, or period recreation sequences needing quiet leisure-setting atmosphere.
Period detail: The pool fence, mounted life ring, diving board, and low stucco-like walls may show mid-century motel, apartment, or residential recreation-area design.
Home-movie behavior: The brief handheld view records an empty pool area without staged action, preserving a casual family-film observation of place and weather.
What appears in frame: Visible details include an empty swimming pool, diving board, wall-mounted life preserver, low fence, pale walls, paved deck, and grassy hillside.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, faded color, visible grain, uneven exposure, and slight handheld drift that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet insert, scene-setter, transition, or memory beat around travel, suburban leisure, weather, or 1960s California.
Historical context: The scene suggests everyday recreation infrastructure in San Diego County during the late 1960s, without visible swimmers or identifiable activity.
Research note: No people are visible, but the pool setting, possible property context, and reported logo or brand issue should be reviewed separately from copyright licensing.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1968 8mm San Diego pool, empty swimming pool home movie, cloudy California recreation area, and 1960s family vacation cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1968 San Diego County footage, then broader 1960s California pool or recreation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 San Diego County 8mm frame showing an empty swimming pool area with a diving board, life preserver, low fence, and hillside. — Empty pool area with diving board and mounted life ring under soft overcast light.

1968 San Diego County home-movie view of a quiet pool area, showing a life ring, diving board, low fencing, and pale poolside walls. — Quiet poolside view with life ring and diving board visible near the fence.

Faded 8mm frame from 1968 San Diego County showing an empty pool area with a mounted life ring, diving board, low wall, and hillside. — Faded home-movie frame of the empty pool deck and safety ring.

Soft 1968 San Diego County pool-area frame with an empty deck, low fence, wall-mounted life preserver, and hillside background. — Overexposed final view of the empty pool area and surrounding fence.

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