California-1961: View Of White City Buildings Blue Ocean Water And Grey Ship On

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 California

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View Of White City Buildings Blue Ocean Water And Grey... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a hazy coastal cityscape from a moving vessel. The view pans across white and grey buildings along the waterfront, with the blue ocean stretching below. A large grey naval ship is visible in the harbor, alongside cranes and other port infrastructure. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight motion blur, and a nostalgic color palette, offering a rare glimpse of mid-century California maritime life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127408979

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 1740 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: indian pow wow
Reel-level year note: 1961-1966
Reel-level location note: san bernardino,california,slaton sea
Date: 1961 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 documentary requests for California waterfront city views, harbor infrastructure, and naval or maritime establishing footage.
Period detail: The frames may show a mid-century coastal skyline with white waterfront buildings, port cranes, and a grey ship, consistent with the 1961 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective from a moving vessel, recording the harbor and skyline as passing scenery rather than a staged view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue harbor water, hazy city buildings, a waterfront skyline, port cranes, a grey ship, ship masts, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm footage shows soft focus, visible grain, slight handheld motion, exposure variation, and warm color shifts typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief maritime insert, city approach transition, harbor cutaway, or memory beat within a California travel sequence.
Historical context: The views place urban development, working port equipment, and naval-looking harbor activity in the same coastal frame without identifying a specific facility.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but ship identity, port location, and copyright status should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1961 California harbor footage, 8mm coastal city skyline, vintage waterfront buildings, blue ocean view, and grey ship in port.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other California 1961 waterfront material, then broader mid-century harbor and maritime travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 California home-movie frame showing white and grey waterfront buildings across blue harbor water. — Waterfront buildings seen across the harbor from a moving vessel.

Hazy California harbor skyline with taller modern buildings and low waterfront structures in a 1961 8mm frame. — Tall buildings and low waterfront structures appear beyond the harbor.

Soft, slightly overexposed 1961 California harbor view with cranes, waterfront buildings, and city skyline. — Port cranes and waterfront buildings pass through a soft, light-leaked frame.

Grey naval-looking ship on blue harbor water with masts, equipment, and a hazy California skyline behind it. — A grey ship sits in the harbor with masts and city buildings behind it.

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