California-1962: Seal Pulls Another Seal On Yellow Raft In Pool

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 California

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Seal Pulls Another Seal On Yellow Raft In Pool — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1962 captures a seal performance at a California pool. A dark-colored seal pulls another seal, which is sitting on a bright yellow inflatable raft, across the water. The scene unfolds in a concrete pool with a chain-link fence and a striped life preserver visible on the deck. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color saturation, with a handheld camera capturing the playful animal act. The sequence ends with a view of a diving platform over the water.

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: 127471794

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 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s California home-movie footage for edits needing a short animal-performance pool scene with seals and a yellow raft.
Period detail: The concrete pool, striped life preserver, chain-link fencing, and saturated 8mm color support an early-1960s visitor-shot amusement setting.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld framing suggests a spectator filming a brief seal act from above the pool rather than a staged production camera setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a seal in the water, a yellow inflatable raft, pool water, concrete deck, chain-link fence, striped life preserver, and diving platform.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm grain, saturated blue-green water, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing typical of scanned home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quick insert, nostalgic cutaway, or transition beat for midcentury leisure, animal shows, or California travel sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents a public-style animal performance as seen by a visitor, while the exact venue is not identifiable from the frames alone.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but animal-performance context and any venue or property permissions should be reviewed separately from copyright.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1962 California seal show, 8mm animal performance, vintage pool attraction, seal pulling raft, and home movie amusement footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel amusement footage, then other 1962 California pool or attraction scenes, then broader vintage animal-performance material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 California home-movie frame showing a dark seal pulling a yellow raft with another seal in a pool near a fence and life preserver. — A seal pulls another seal seated on a yellow raft across the pool.

Soft 1962 home-movie frame with a pale poolside area and faint water edge, likely during a quick handheld camera movement. — The camera drifts across a soft, nearly empty poolside view.

1962 California home-movie frame showing a small diving platform over blue pool water after the seal act. — A diving platform appears over the rippled pool water.

1962 California home-movie frame with a diving platform, striped handrail, and rippling blue water in the pool. — The sequence ends on the pool platform and surrounding water.

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