California-1962: Audience Watches Dolphin Leap in Pool

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 California

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Audience Watches Dolphin Leap in Pool — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a lively scene at a California dolphin show. A group of people, including children and adults in period summer attire, gather to watch a dolphin perform in a pool. The footage shows the dolphin leaping from the water, creating splashes under bright daylight, with a red-and-white striped barrier visible. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film adds authentic retro charm, evoking mid-century family entertainment at a seaside attraction.

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: 127471651

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: Yes
Minors 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 1236 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: disneyland
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1962 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s California leisure, marine-park entertainment, and family-attraction sequences in documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The visitor clothing, pool barrier, painted public restroom sign, and color 8mm look support an early-1960s amusement or water-park setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves a visitor-shot viewpoint, shifting between spectators near the restroom entrance and the dolphin pool action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include spectators, a WOMEN restroom sign, bright pool water, splash activity, a blue pool wall, and red-and-white striped barriers.
Film character: The footage has a handheld 8mm texture with soft focus, blue color shift, dense shadows, bright water highlights, and visible frame-edge vignetting.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief cutaway, memory beat, or transitional insert for mid-century tourism and animal-show recreation.
Historical context: The scene reflects public leisure around staged dolphin entertainment, viewed from a casual home-movie position rather than an official production angle.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright clearance remains separate from depicted-person issues.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1962 California 8mm dolphin show, vintage water park footage, marine attraction home movie, and 1960s pool performance.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel scenes, then other California 1962 visitor footage, then broader 1960s amusement-park or animal-show material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 California home-movie frame showing spectators near a WOMEN restroom sign at a water-park or dolphin-show setting. — Spectators gather beside the WOMEN restroom sign near the show area.

Bright pool water splashes during the dolphin-show action, with a striped barrier visible in the 8mm frame. — Splashing water fills the pool area during the performance.

A blue pool structure and red-and-white striped barrier sit above rippling water in the California dolphin-show footage. — Pool wall, barrier, and water surface between show moments.

The frame holds on the blue pool wall, striped safety barrier, and reflective water after the splash sequence. — A quiet pool detail with barrier and reflective water.

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