San Francisco California USA-1973: House Beside A Lake With A Fountain

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 San Francisco California

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House Beside A Lake With A Fountain — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 in San Francisco, California, showing a stately Mediterranean-style house with a red-tiled roof beside a tranquil lake. A small fountain sprays water in the pond, surrounded by lush green trees and manicured lawns. The camera pans slowly across the scene, capturing the warm, slightly faded colors of the era. The film exhibits natural grain and soft focus typical of Super 8 footage, evoking a nostalgic, sun-drenched suburban memory.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120967007

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 1395 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: honeymoon
Reel-level year note: 1973
Reel-level location note: salt lake,utah,sf, california,monerey,lake tahoe
Date: 1973 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 Francisco, 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 1970s San Francisco establishing or memory sequences needing quiet lakeside architecture, park landscaping, and home-movie atmosphere.
Period detail: The red-tile roof, pale stucco facade, clipped lawns, and soft 8mm color may show a 1973 urban park or residential-lakeside setting in San Francisco.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, lingering across water, fountain spray, trees, and a large building without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a lakeside Mediterranean-style building, red-tiled roof, arched windows, fountain spray, green lawns, shrubs, mature trees, and bright sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild fading, contact-sheet frame edges, and slight handheld drift that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet exterior insert, scenic transition, place-setting cutaway, or reflective memory beat between more active San Francisco footage.
Historical context: The scene suggests maintained urban greenery and leisure-side architecture in early-1970s San Francisco, without enough visual evidence to identify the exact site.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but researchers should still verify copyright status and any property or location permissions for intended use.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1973 San Francisco 8mm lake fountain, 1970s California park house, vintage home movie lakeside building, and Super 8 fountain landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1973 San Francisco exteriors, then broader 1970s California parks, lakes, fountains, and residential architecture.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 San Francisco 8mm frame showing a pale Mediterranean-style lakeside building, red-tiled roof, green lawn, trees, and a small fountain spraying in the pond. — Lakeside building and fountain across the water.

1973 San Francisco 8mm frame with the lakeside building partly obscured by trees, fountain spray in the pond, trimmed greenery, and bright sky. — Fountain and trees in front of the lakeside building.

1973 San Francisco 8mm frame emphasizing the pond fountain, dense shrubs, mature trees, and a partial pale building edge at the side of the view. — Trees and fountain as the camera pans along the lake.

1973 San Francisco 8mm frame showing the fountain centered in the pond, layered shrubs and trees behind it, and a pale building edge entering the right side of the frame. — Fountain and landscaped greenery at the lakeside.

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