Knotts Berry Farm California-1961: Sea Lions Swimming in Pool

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationKnotts Berry Farm, California, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 California

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Sea Lions Swimming in Pool — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961 at Knott's Berry Farm, this vintage home movie captures sea lions swimming in a pool. The footage shows the animals gliding through the water, with one briefly resting on a concrete ledge. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: warm yellowish tint, visible grain, scratches, and slight fading, offering authentic archival footage of a mid-century amusement park attraction.

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: 127722832

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: Knotts Berry Farm, 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: 1961 8mm home-movie footage useful for documentary or educational requests about mid-century California amusement park animal attractions.
Period detail: The pool, concrete ledges and visitor-shot framing may show a 1960s sea lion attraction at Knott's Berry Farm, as supported by the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged visitor viewpoint, watching sea lions move through the pool from above rather than presenting a formal animal-show angle.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include sea lions in greenish pool water, concrete edges, bright sun patches, dark frame borders, and warm film flare.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows warm yellow color shift, grain, scratches, soft focus, uneven exposure and frame-edge shadowing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, period insert, attraction detail or memory beat within a sequence on family travel or amusement parks.
Historical context: The clip documents a visitor's view of captive sea lions as part of a mid-century leisure setting, without showing performers, signage or identifiable guests.
Research note: No people, logos or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location/property context and animal-attraction use should still be reviewed before licensing.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1961 8mm sea lions in pool, Knott's Berry Farm home movie, California amusement park animals and vintage wildlife attraction footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Knott's Berry Farm scenes, then other 1961 California amusement-park footage, then broader vintage animal-attraction material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Knott's Berry Farm home-movie frame with a dim, faded glimpse of the sea lion pool area and heavy yellow film cast. — A heavily faded opening frame shows the sea lion attraction through warm exposure and frame wear.

1961 Knott's Berry Farm frame showing sea lions swimming in a greenish pool near concrete ledges, with warm film flare at the edge. — Sea lions move through the pool near the concrete ledge in a visitor-shot view.

1961 Knott's Berry Farm home-movie view of sea lions swimming through rippled pool water, partly softened by exposure and age. — The sea lions continue swimming through the rippled pool water under uneven exposure.

1961 Knott's Berry Farm frame with multiple sea lions in the pool, including one near a concrete ledge and bright reflected water. — Multiple sea lions are visible in the pool, with one close to the concrete ledge.

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