San Diego California USA-1949: The Dog Was Playing With The Ball In The

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Year1949
Decade1940s
LocationSan Diego, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1949 California

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The Dog Was Playing With The Ball In The — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from San Diego, California, 1949, showing a small dark dog playing in a grassy backyard. The dog chases a ball across the lawn, with shadows of a fence or structure cast across the green grass. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, capturing a candid moment of domestic life. The scene includes a low concrete curb and scattered debris, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century American suburban atmosphere.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122719665

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 1660 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1949
Reel-level location note: del mar, california,chicago
Date: 1949 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: Useful for 1940s domestic-life requests needing candid 8mm backyard footage of a small dog playing in San Diego.
Period detail: The clip may show a mid-century residential yard, with a low concrete border, patchy lawn, scattered yard debris, and strong sun shadows.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged home-movie glimpse of a family pet chasing or reacting to a ball in an ordinary backyard.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small dark dog, a ball, green grass, a low concrete curb, yard debris, bare soil, and hard shadows across the lawn.
Film character: The footage has 8mm color softness, visible grain, slight exposure variation, gate edges, and handheld motion blur typical of home-movie scanning.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, memory beat, domestic cutaway, or transition into pet ownership and everyday postwar family life.
Historical context: The scene provides visual context for informal backyard recreation and pet companionship without showing identifiable people or public landmarks.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1949 San Diego 8mm dog playing ball, vintage backyard pet footage, and 1940s home movie domestic yard.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then San Diego 1949 home movies, then broader 1940s family pet and backyard scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1949 San Diego home-movie frame showing a grassy backyard, small ball, concrete border, and dark shadows across the lawn. — A ball rests on the grass near a low concrete edge in the backyard.

Motion-blurred 1949 San Diego backyard frame with a small dark dog moving near the edge of the lawn. — The small dark dog moves through the sunlit yard as the camera blurs with motion.

1949 San Diego home-movie frame of a small dark dog standing in a grassy backyard near a low concrete border. — The dog pauses on the lawn near the concrete edging and scattered debris.

1949 San Diego backyard frame showing a small dark dog facing the camera on grass with curb edging and yard debris behind it. — The small dog faces the camera in the backyard, framed by grass and low concrete edging.

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