California USA-1963: Waves Crashing over Boulders at Dusk

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Year1963
Decade1960s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Waves Crashing over Boulders at Dusk — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1963, this vintage home movie captures a serene California beach at dusk. The scene features large waves crashing over prominent dark boulders in the ocean, with gentle surf rolling onto the sandy shore. The entire frame is bathed in a deep, cool purple hue, characteristic of aged film stock, with visible grain and soft focus. The composition is framed by dark borders, suggesting a projected home movie experience. This archival footage evokes a nostalgic, timeless atmosphere of the early 1960s coastline.

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: 124934854

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 1112 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: knotts berry farm,zoo,san diego,mary,park,phillip
Reel-level year note: 1963
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1963 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: 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: Supports 1960s California coastal atmosphere requests for documentary inserts, environmental cutaways, memory sequences, or quiet ocean transitions.
Period detail: The footage may show an early 1960s home-movie view of a California beach, with no visible buildings, people, signs, or landmarks to narrow the location further.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds on surf and offshore rocks from a shore-level viewpoint, giving the scene the quiet observational feel of a personal travel or family reel.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark offshore boulders, breaking waves, wet sand, a cool purple-blue sky, soft surf lines, film borders, and light dust specks.
Film character: The 8mm image has visible grain, soft focus, cool color shift, dark frame edges, and slight exposure variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a coastal cutaway, reflective transition, establishing insert, or subdued memory beat between travel or nature scenes.
Historical context: The clip offers a noncommercial shoreline view from 1963 California, emphasizing beach landscape and surf rather than recognizable social activity.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, brands, or private property are visible, but copyright and source licensing should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1963 California beach 8mm, vintage surf boulders, 1960s home movie ocean, purple dusk coastline, and archival waves on rocks.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1963 California coastal footage, then broader 1960s beach, ocean, surf, or nature material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1963 California 8mm beach view with dark offshore boulders, rolling surf, wet sand, and a cool purple-blue cast. — Waves break around dark rocks along a quiet California shoreline.

California beach footage from 1963 showing surf, distant boulders, wet shoreline, and dark 8mm frame edges. — Rolling surf passes over and around low dark boulders offshore.

A 1963 home-movie frame of a California beach with offshore rocks, white surf, wet sand, and visible film grain. — White surf breaks behind two low rocks on the shoreline.

Final 1963 California beach frame with a breaking wave, distant rocks, wet sand, and aged 8mm color shift. — A wave crests and breaks beyond the reflective wet beach.

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