San Diego California USA-1949: Black Small Dog Playing on Grass

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

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Black Small Dog Playing on Grass — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1949 in San Diego, California, showing a small black dog with curly fur playing on a grassy lawn. The dog moves energetically across the green yard, its dark coat contrasting with the bright grass and a light-colored wall in the background. The footage captures the dog from multiple angles, including a close-up of its happy face with tongue out, showcasing its playful nature. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, characteristic of amateur home movies from the late 1940s. The scene is framed by the dark borders of the film strip, enhancing its nostalgic, archival quality.

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: 122719848

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 home-movie requests needing a brief domestic pet moment, animal cutaway, or San Diego family-life insert.
Period detail: The 8mm color home-movie look, lawn setting, and metadata date place the scene in San Diego in 1949, with no visible landmarks or signage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged household perspective as the camera follows a small black dog moving and pausing on grass.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a curly black dog, green lawn, light paving, bare shrubs, a pale wall or walkway, dark film-strip borders, and close-up dog faces.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, uneven exposure, handheld framing, mild blur, and color fading consistent with late-1940s amateur film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quick animal insert, family-memory beat, transition from domestic exteriors, or period texture between broader home-movie scenes.
Historical context: The scene reflects a private domestic outdoor moment rather than a public event, emphasizing pet ownership and casual home filming in the postwar period.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright status and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1949 San Diego 8mm home movie dog, vintage black dog on lawn, 1940s pet footage, and archival family film animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other San Diego 1949 home movies, then broader 1940s pet and lawn scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1949 San Diego 8mm frame of a small black curly-haired dog moving across grass near pale paving. — A small black dog crosses the lawn in a soft, handheld 8mm frame.

1949 San Diego home-movie frame showing a black dog near a grassy edge, bare shrubs, and pale paving. — The dog pauses near the edge of the grass with shrubs and paving behind it.

Close 1949 San Diego 8mm view of a black curly-haired dog looking toward the camera with its tongue out. — A close-up catches the dog facing the camera, tongue visible against the grass.

The dog turns in profile with its tongue out in the final close-up frame.

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