California-1952: Woman Points At Boats In Coastal Harbor

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

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Woman Points At Boats In Coastal Harbor — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched coastal scene in California. A woman's hand enters the frame, pointing toward a bustling harbor filled with small boats and yachts. The view, framed by the camera's edge, shows a shoreline with white buildings nestled against rolling hills. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight blurriness, and a faded color palette, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century travel memory. A motorboat speeds across the water, leaving a white wake. The overall mood is relaxed and observational, capturing a moment of leisure and discovery.

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: 127545558

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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 1234 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: miss universe
Reel-level year note: 1952
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1952 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 1950s California travel, coastal leisure, harbor activity, or mid-century vacation inserts needing real 8mm home-movie texture.
Period detail: The clip may show early-1950s leisure boating, shoreline buildings, and visitor-shot harbor views consistent with the supplied 1952 California metadata.
Home-movie behavior: A traveler or companion points across the water, giving the scene an unstaged home-movie sense of noticing boats and shoreline details in the moment.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pointing hand, harbor water, small boats, white wakes, pale waterfront buildings, rolling hills, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, faded color, visible grain, dust, and slight handheld framing that read as original 8mm physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a coastal travel cutaway, memory beat, transition between vacation scenes, or establishing insert for boating culture.
Historical context: The view reflects mid-century tourist observation of a California harbor, with boats, waterfront structures, and hills seen from a casual vantage point.
Research note: A person’s hand is visible, so likeness review may still be relevant; no logos are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from likeness or property review.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1952 California harbor 8mm footage, mid-century boating home movies, coastal travel scenes, and vintage tourist waterfront views.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel travel footage, then other 1952 California harbor scenes, then broader vintage boating or coastal tourism material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 California home-movie frame with a hand pointing toward boats in a coastal harbor below pale hillside buildings. — A hand points across a harbor toward boats and shoreline buildings.

Soft 8mm view of a California coastal harbor, with small boats, wakes, waterfront buildings, and hills in the distance. — Boats cross the harbor in front of distant shoreline buildings and hills.

1952 California harbor view with boats and a bright wake below soft-focus waterfront buildings and rolling hills. — A small boat leaves a white wake across the harbor water.

Soft 8mm frame showing a California harbor edge below a steep hillside, with boats and shoreline structures partly visible. — The camera drifts toward a hillside rising above the harbor edge.

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