San Diego California USA-1949: Dog Is Playing The Ground

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

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Dog Is Playing The Ground — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1949 in San Diego, California, showing a small black dog playing in a grassy backyard. The dog runs across the lawn, carrying a stick in its mouth, with a low concrete wall and tropical plants in the background. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and natural sunlight casting long shadows. This authentic archival clip captures a nostalgic moment of domestic life and pet play from the late 1940s.

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: 122719667

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 brief 8mm pet footage from San Diego for documentary, education, or memory-sequence use.
Period detail: The clip shows a sunny backyard lawn with a low concrete wall and planting beds, with the 1949 San Diego setting supported by supplied metadata rather than visible landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged home-movie feel as the camera follows a small black dog moving through the yard with a stick.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small black dog, a stick, green lawn, low concrete wall, garden path, tropical plants, shadows, and film frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, handheld motion, muted color, visible grain, slight blur, and uneven exposure that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, cutaway, transition, or memory beat for mid-century home life, pets, or suburban yard scenes.
Historical context: The scene reflects informal domestic leisure and pet play in an outdoor residential setting, without visible people or identifiable public landmarks.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright and any location or property permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1949 San Diego 8mm home movie dog in backyard, small black dog with stick, vintage pet footage, and mid-century lawn scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel family or backyard clips, then other 1949 San Diego footage, then broader vintage pet and home-life scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Small black dog in a 1949 San Diego backyard scene, standing on grass near a low concrete wall and planted garden edge. — A small black dog pauses on the lawn near the garden wall.

Small black dog appears to carry a stick across a sunny San Diego backyard lawn in 1949 home-movie footage. — The dog moves across the grass with a stick in its mouth.

The black dog crosses the backyard lawn in soft, handheld 8mm footage from the supplied 1949 San Diego clip metadata. — Motion blur catches the dog moving through the yard.

Small black dog runs through the sunlit and shadowed backyard lawn in 1949 San Diego home-movie footage. — The dog runs across the lawn at the end of the clip.

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