San Diego California USA-1949: Small Black Curly Haired Dog Running Playfully On

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

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Small Black Curly Haired Dog Running Playfully On — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1949 in San Diego, California, showing a small black puppy with curly fur playing on a sunlit grassy lawn. The puppy lies down, then gets up and runs playfully across the yard, its shadow stretching across the green grass. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and natural lighting, capturing a nostalgic moment of a young dog enjoying a sunny day in a suburban backyard with a low stone wall and sparse desert vegetation in the background.

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: 122719681

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 1940s 8mm home-movie insert for productions needing a domestic pet, backyard leisure, or small dog behavior moment in San Diego.
Period detail: The sunlit lawn, low stone edging, sparse plantings, and soft color 8mm texture may show a modest Southern California yard setting in the late 1940s.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged family-film feel, watching a small dog lie, stand, and move across the grass without posed action or visible handlers.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small black curly-haired dog, green lawn, strong shadow, low stone wall, pale soil, sparse shrubs, and film frame borders.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, gate edges, dust specks, and handheld framing that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief cutaway, memory beat, transitional insert, or domestic-life detail within a sequence about pets or everyday California homes.
Historical context: The scene offers a small visual record of mid-century outdoor home life, centered on a family pet in a sunny residential yard rather than a public event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright status and any property-related permissions should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1940s 8mm dog footage, San Diego home movie puppy on lawn, small black dog running, and vintage backyard pet scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1949 San Diego home-movie clips, then with vintage pet or backyard leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1949 San Diego 8mm frame showing a small black curly-haired dog lying on grass in a sunny yard with sparse planting behind it. — A small black dog rests on the grass in a bright yard.

1949 San Diego home-movie frame with a small black dog standing on grass, head lowered, casting a clear shadow in the yard. — The dog stands with its shadow stretched across the grass.

Soft 8mm frame from the San Diego yard sequence, showing blurred lawn and visible dust or scratch marks as the dog moves out of view. — The camera catches blurred grass as the dog moves between positions.

1949 San Diego 8mm frame showing the small black dog back on the lawn, with a low wall, sun shadow, and sparse yard plantings behind it. — The small dog pauses on the grass near the edge of the yard.

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