San Diego California USA-1949: Person Grooming a Black Poodle

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

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Person Grooming a Black Poodle — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1949 in San Diego, California, showing a person grooming a black poodle. The clip captures close-up hands brushing the dog's curly fur against a textured wall background. The person wears a light-colored short-sleeved shirt, and the dog stands calmly during the grooming. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: warm color tones, visible grain, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic mid-century domestic moment.

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: 122719775

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 requests needing late-1940s domestic home-movie footage of pet care, especially documentary inserts on family life, grooming routines, or companion animals.
Period detail: The 1949 San Diego metadata is supported, while the visible clues are modest: 8mm color, short-sleeved casual clothing, a block wall, and a mid-century home-movie framing style.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged household moment as hands steady and groom a calm black poodle at close range.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a black poodle, adult hands and forearms, a light short-sleeved shirt, a pinkish block wall, a dark vertical frame edge, and glimpses of a parked vehicle.
Film character: The footage has warm 8mm color, soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and slight handheld blur that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a cutaway, memory beat, or brief insert for mid-century domestic life, pet ownership, or everyday care routines.
Historical context: The scene offers a small-scale view of postwar American home life through a personal pet-grooming moment rather than a public event or landmark.
Research note: People are partially visible, so likeness review may be needed even though no faces or logos are clearly shown; copyright, likeness, and property issues should be checked separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1949 San Diego 8mm home movie dog grooming, vintage poodle footage, mid-century pet care, and domestic animal home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other 1949 San Diego home movies, then related pet, household, or mid-century family-life clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1949 San Diego home-movie frame showing a black poodle near adult hands beside a block wall. — A black poodle stands close to adult hands during grooming beside a block wall.

1949 San Diego frame with a partial adult figure in a light shirt near a wall and parked vehicle. — A partial adult figure moves near the grooming area, with a vehicle partly visible behind.

1949 San Diego home-movie frame showing a black poodle beside a partial adult figure near a block wall. — The poodle lowers its head near a partial adult figure as grooming continues.

1949 San Diego frame showing adult hands steadying a black poodle during grooming against a block wall. — Adult hands steady the black poodle in a close-up grooming moment.

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