California-1964: Ocean Waves Crashing on Rocky Shore with Cliff and Building

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 California

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Ocean Waves Crashing on Rocky Shore with Cliff and Building — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic coastal scene in California. Powerful waves crash against the rocky shore, sending white foam across the water. A rugged cliff rises on the right, topped with a small white building, possibly a lighthouse or coastal home. The deep blue ocean stretches to the horizon under a clear sky. The footage shows natural film grain and slight color fading, with a dark border suggesting it was viewed through a window or frame. This authentic archival clip evokes 1960s Americana and coastal nostalgia.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127381029

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1964 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s California coastal home-movie footage for documentary inserts, regional place-setting, nature cutaways, or reflective travel-memory sequences.
Period detail: The frames show an 8mm color view of surf, rocky headland, and a small pale coastal building, with no visible cars, people, signs, or date-specific public markers.
Home-movie behavior: The shot feels like a visitor filming from an overlook or window, holding on the rhythm of waves and coastline rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue ocean, white surf, reef-like shallows, dark rocky cliffs, distant horizon, small coastal building, sky, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm texture through soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, dark frame edges, and minor dust specks from the physical film scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a coastal establishing insert, transition between travel scenes, natural-sound cutaway, or quiet memory beat.
Historical context: The footage documents a mid-century home-movie view of the California coast as a scenic destination, without identifiable crowds or commercial activity in frame.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable signs are visible, but the coastal building should be treated as an unidentified structure and reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1964 California coast 8mm, vintage ocean waves, rocky shoreline home movie, Pacific surf cutaway, and coastal cliff building footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1964 California coastal material, then broader vintage Pacific shore and ocean-wave themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 8mm California coastal view with white surf, blue ocean, rocky cliff, and a small pale building near the headland. — Waves break across shallow water below a rocky coastal headland with a small building above the surf.

1964 California coast frame showing white breaking waves, reef-like shallows, blue horizon, and a small structure on the rocky point. — A broad band of surf rolls toward the shore beside a dark rocky point and small coastal structure.

Vintage 8mm California shoreline view with foamy surf in the foreground and a dark cliff carrying a small pale building beyond. — Foam and shallow water dominate the frame as the rocky headland recedes along the coast.

1964 8mm coastal frame with white surf patterns, blue Pacific water, and a rocky California point with a small pale building. — White surf patterns sweep across the water below the rocky point and open ocean horizon.

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