San Diego California USA-1961: Man Feeding Pigeons in Rose Garden

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationSan Diego, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 California

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Man Feeding Pigeons in Rose Garden — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from San Diego, California, in 1961 captures a man in a light blue shirt and brown trousers walking through a lush garden filled with red roses and green bushes. He smiles as he approaches a pond where white pigeons gather, gently interacting with the birds. A woman in a patterned dress joins him, holding a white bird, while another man observes nearby. The scene is bathed in natural sunlight, showcasing the warm, nostalgic colors of classic Super 8 film with visible grain and soft focus, evoking a sense of peaceful, everyday life in mid-century America.

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: 120804599

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 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: San Diego, 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: This clip supports archival requests for early 1960s San Diego leisure, garden visits, and everyday human-animal interaction for documentary, museum, educational, or period atmosphere edits.
Period detail: The light clothing, high-waisted trousers, patterned dress, and soft 8mm color palette may show early 1960s casual visitor style in a landscaped public garden setting.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has unstaged home-movie value as adults walk, smile, watch the birds, and handle white pigeons beside a pond without formal posing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include adult visitors, white pigeons, a pond edge, red roses, dense green planting, a stone garden feature, bright sunlight, and soft shadows.
Film character: The 8mm scan has gentle handheld framing, visible grain, soft focus, slightly uneven exposure, and warm color that preserve the physical-film texture of a home movie.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, memory beat, or transition for mid-century park life, peaceful travel footage, or human interaction with birds.
Historical context: The scene reflects a quiet public-garden outing in 1961 San Diego, showing adults moving through ornamental landscaping and engaging with birds in a relaxed social setting.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed separately from copyright assessment, while no logos, children, audible music, or obvious private interiors are visible in these frames.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1961 San Diego 8mm garden footage, mid-century rose garden visitors, man feeding pigeons, white birds by pond, and vintage home movie park scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then other 1961 San Diego outdoor scenes, and then broader mid-century garden, park, bird-feeding, or leisure-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1961 San Diego home-movie footage, a man in a light shirt and brown trousers walks through a rose garden beside a pond where white pigeons gather. — Man walking near pigeons in a rose garden.

A smiling adult man stands beside a pond in a landscaped San Diego garden, with white pigeons on the edge and roses and greenery behind him. — Smiling visitor beside pond and pigeons.

A woman in light clothing holds white pigeons near the pond as a man walks nearby through the rose garden in the 1961 San Diego home-movie scene. — Woman holding pigeons near the pond.

Two adult visitors, including a woman holding white pigeons and a man watching nearby, stand by a pond in a 1961 San Diego garden scene. — Adults with white pigeons beside the pond.

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