San Diego California USA-1949: Black Dog Playing in Grass Yard

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

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Black Dog Playing in Grass Yard — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1949 in San Diego, California, showing a fluffy black dog exploring a grassy backyard. The dog sniffs the ground, walks across the lawn, and rolls playfully on its back in the grass. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics with natural color tones, slight grain, and a handheld camera perspective. The scene captures a candid moment of a pet enjoying a sunny day outdoors, offering authentic archival footage of mid-century American domestic life.

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: 122719786

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: 1940s San Diego home-movie pet footage for productions needing a brief domestic-life insert, animal cutaway, or backyard memory detail.
Period detail: The frames may show a mid-century residential lawn or yard, with no visible landmarks, people, cars, signage, or other date-specific details beyond the 1949 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage preserves an unstaged pet moment as the black dog walks, sniffs, and rolls in grass from a close handheld home-movie viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a fluffy black dog, green lawn, shaded yard edges, a walkway or patio area, vertical film borders, and soft outdoor light.
Film character: The 8mm image has visible grain, soft focus, mild exposure variation, color fading, and handheld framing that support its home-movie archive character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a sequence about pets, family life, or postwar domestic routines.
Historical context: The clip offers a small visual record of pet keeping and backyard leisure in a San Diego home-movie context, without showing identifiable people or public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright status and any property-related context should still be reviewed before reuse.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1949 San Diego dog home movie, 1940s backyard pet footage, vintage 8mm black dog in grass, and mid-century family yard animal clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1949 San Diego home-movie material, and then with broader vintage pet or backyard domestic-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1949 San Diego home-movie footage, a fluffy black dog walks across a green yard with soft focus and dark film borders. — A black dog moves across the grass near the edge of a backyard.

The black dog rolls onto its back in the grass during the 1949 San Diego backyard home-movie scene. — The dog rolls onto its back in the lawn.

A fluffy black dog continues rolling in the grass, filmed close to the lawn in a handheld 8mm home-movie view. — The dog twists playfully while rolling in the grass.

The black dog lies stretched in the lawn at the end of the short 1949 San Diego pet clip. — The dog rests low in the grass after rolling.

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