San Diego California USA-1949: Black Dog Scratching and Running on Grass

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

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Black Dog Scratching and Running on Grass — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from San Diego, California, 1949, showing a small black dog on a grassy lawn. The dog lies and scratches itself, then sits up and looks around before running across the sunlit yard. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural outdoor lighting, capturing a candid moment of a pet in a suburban backyard. The scene is bright and sunny, with a low stone wall visible in the background.

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: 122719694

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s home-movie requests needing a brief pet cutaway, suburban yard insert, or everyday animal behavior from Southern California.
Period detail: The footage may show a late-1940s residential lawn with a low stone wall, sparse landscaping, and casual backyard space visible behind the dog.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged pet moment, with the small black dog scratching, sitting, and running as a family camera follows briefly.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small black dog, sunlit grass, scattered leaves or debris, a low stone wall, bare branches, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet frame edges that reinforce its home-movie origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, memory beat, pet-life cutaway, or transitional yard detail in a domestic or animal-themed sequence.
Historical context: The scene gives modest visual context for backyard leisure and pet keeping, without showing people, signage, or identifiable public landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location, and any property-related use should still be reviewed for the intended project.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1949 San Diego home movie dog, 1940s black dog on lawn, vintage 8mm pet footage, and backyard animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1949 San Diego home movies, then broader vintage pet, backyard, or suburban lawn footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Small black dog on a sunlit San Diego lawn in 1949 home-movie footage, seen near grass and a low wall. — A small black dog sits low on the grass in a sunny yard.

Black dog seated on a grassy San Diego yard, with strong sunlight casting a shadow across the lawn. — The dog sits on the lawn with a clear shadow stretching beside it.

Small black dog runs across the lawn in soft, motion-blurred 1949 home-movie footage from San Diego. — The dog moves quickly across the frame, creating visible motion blur.

Black dog pauses or moves near a grassy yard edge, with bare branches and a low wall in the background. — The dog appears near the yard edge, with branches and a low wall behind it.

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