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California-1955: Rugged Shoreline With Tall Rocky Cliffs And White Buoy

  • Year1955
  • Decade1950s
  • LocationCalifornia, United States
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
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Rugged Shoreline With Tall Rocky Cliffs And White Buoy — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1955, this vintage home movie captures a rugged California shoreline with towering rocky cliffs rising from calm waters. The camera pans slowly across the natural landscape, highlighting the textured rock faces and their reflections in the water below. A white buoy floats in the foreground, adding scale and depth to the scene. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. The natural setting suggests a remote coastal location, with no visible human activity, emphasizing the raw beauty of the California coast in the mid-20th century.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution
4K Digitally Restored
License
Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery
Instant Digital Download
Duration
5s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
125290445

Rights & Clearance

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 1449 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label
david,alex
Reel-level year note
1953-1955-1956
Reel-level location note
palm springs california
Date
1955 Corroborated (Supported by multiple independent clues.)
Date evidence
Catalog year matches an independent year note filed with the physical source reel.
Location
California, United States Corroborated (Supported by multiple independent clues.)
Location evidence
Catalog place matches an independent location note filed with the physical source reel.
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

  • boat
  • moving down shoreline
  • shoreline
  • moving
  • current
  • difficult
  • climb
  • land
  • tall
  • rocks
  • nature
  • california
  • 1955
  • 1955 California coastline
  • vintage 8mm film
  • Super 8 home movie
  • rocky shoreline
  • coastal cliffs
  • water reflection
  • white buoy
  • nature footage
  • archival film
  • retro 1950s
  • historic footage
  • old film
  • nostalgic scenery
  • California coast
  • 8mm home movie
  • vintage nature
  • film grain
  • Super 8 footage
  • 1950s home movie
  • vintage California

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
1950s California coastal home-movie footage for documentary inserts, regional history programs, natural landscape sequences, or period travel context.

Still Frames From This Clip

Rocky shoreline cliffs above calm water with a white buoy near the lower foreground.

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