San Diego California USA-1949: Our First Home

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

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Our First Home — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1949 showing the exterior of a modest house in San Diego, California. The clip features a brick facade with wooden trim, large windows with sheer curtains, and a wooden door. The view is partially obscured by tree branches and foliage, creating a nostalgic, intimate perspective. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and subtle camera movement, capturing a quiet moment of mid-century domestic life. This authentic archival footage offers a glimpse into post-war American suburban architecture and family life.

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: 122719971

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: 1949 San Diego home-movie footage suited for documentary or educational requests about postwar domestic exteriors and modest American housing.
Period detail: The brick-pattern facade, wood-framed door, broad picture windows, and sheer curtains may show late-1940s residential styling in Southern California.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds from outside through nearby trees, giving the house the quiet, personal viewpoint of a family record rather than a staged property view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wood door, large curtained windows, brick-pattern lower wall, wood trim, shaded foliage, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft grain, warm faded color, slight exposure variation, and small handheld shifts that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, domestic-memory cutaway, or transition into a postwar family-home sequence.
Historical context: The clip provides visual context for a modest residential exterior in San Diego in 1949 without showing occupants, street life, or identifiable landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but the residential exterior and underlying film copyright should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1949 San Diego home movie, vintage 8mm house exterior, postwar California residence, and mid-century family home footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1949 San Diego material, then with domestic exteriors or postwar housing themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1949 San Diego home-movie frame showing a wood door, broad curtained windows, brick-pattern facade, and shaded edges. — A modest house front with a wooden door, large windows, curtains, and brick-pattern siding.

1949 San Diego exterior view of a modest residence with a wood-framed door, large windows, sheer curtains, and brick-pattern wall. — The camera holds on the front of the home, with the door and wide curtained windows filling the frame.

1949 San Diego home-movie still of a modest house front, with curtained windows, wood trim, a door, and dark foreground obstruction. — A slightly shifted view of the house front shows the windows and door through shaded foreground edges.

1949 San Diego frame showing the house entrance, broad curtained windows, brick-pattern exterior, and nearby dark foliage. — The final frame keeps the house front in view while nearby shade and foliage partially obscure the left side.

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