San Diego California USA-1949: Old Footage Of A Black Dog Running Through A

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

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Old Footage Of A Black Dog Running Through A — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1949 in San Diego, California, showing a black poodle running across a grassy yard. The dog moves from left to right, its curly fur and energetic motion captured with characteristic film grain and slight blur. The scene includes a white fence and overgrown greenery in the background, viewed through a dark frame typical of old film projectors. The footage exhibits natural color shifts and subtle imperfections, offering authentic archival charm for historical or nostalgic projects.

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: 122719905

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 animal cutaway, domestic yard detail, or nostalgic San Diego-era pet footage.
Period detail: The footage may show a mid-century residential yard, with a simple fence, lawn, trees, and adjacent light-colored building visible behind the dog.
Home-movie behavior: The camera follows an unstaged black dog moving across the grass, preserving a casual family-film moment rather than a posed animal portrait.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a black curly-coated dog, grass lawn, wooden fencing, trees, a light building wall, yard shadows, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, motion blur, uneven exposure, color shift, grain, and projector-like black borders that support its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quick insert, memory beat, transition, or visual shorthand for a family yard and pet in a mid-century archive sequence.
Historical context: The scene gives a small-scale view of domestic outdoor space and pet keeping, without showing people, public events, landmarks, or identifiable signage.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright and any property-related concerns should still be reviewed before final use.
Research search match: Search phrases include 1949 San Diego 8mm dog footage, black poodle home movie, vintage yard pet film, and 1940s animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1949 San Diego home movies, then broader vintage pet or residential yard footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1949 San Diego home-movie frame showing a grassy yard with wooden fencing, trees, and a building edge before the dog crosses view. — A quiet yard setting with fence, trees, and lawn establishes the outdoor home-movie scene.

1949 San Diego frame with a black curly-coated dog moving across a grassy yard near a light-colored building wall. — The dog appears in motion across the lawn, softened by home-movie focus and blur.

A blurred close pass of the black dog on the lawn, with the handheld 8mm camera catching fast movement at close range. — Fast motion turns the dog into a soft dark form as it crosses the grass.

1949 San Diego home-movie frame showing the black curly-coated dog facing the camera on grass, with fence detail behind it. — The dog pauses or turns toward the camera, its dark curly coat visible against the lawn.

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