San Diego California USA-1949: Wind Blowing Through Trees Near Modern Brick Building

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

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Wind Blowing Through Trees Near Modern Brick Building — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1949 in San Diego, California, showing a modern-style building with large windows partially obscured by a dense green hedge. Lush trees and foliage frame the structure, with gentle wind causing subtle movement in the leaves. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and natural lighting, capturing a quiet residential moment from the late 1940s. The shot is static, viewed through a natural frame, evoking a nostalgic, personal memory of mid-century suburban 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: 122720012

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: Helps answer requests for late-1940s San Diego residential or modern-building atmosphere as a quiet exterior cutaway for documentary, museum, or educational edits.
Period detail: The large windows, low roofline, brick or wood trim, and planted hedge may show mid-century residential or small-building design in 1949 San Diego.
Home-movie behavior: The static view and natural framing suggest a home-movie observer recording a calm exterior moment rather than a staged architectural view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a modern low building, tall window panels, dark hedge, leafy trees, sunlit foliage, and deep shadow at the frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, warm color, visible grain, slight exposure bloom, and minor frame weave that give the shot physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, memory beat, transition, or quiet cutaway for mid-century California home life.
Historical context: The footage places modern domestic architecture within lush landscaping, offering visual context for postwar California residential surroundings without identifying the property.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property-release needs should still be checked for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1949 San Diego 8mm building exterior, mid-century California home movie, wind in trees near windows, and vintage residential hedge.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other 1949 San Diego exteriors, then broader mid-century California foliage and residential cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1949 San Diego home-movie frame of a low modern building with tall windows, dense hedge, and leafy trees around it. — A modern exterior sits behind a dark hedge and sunlit foliage.

1949 San Diego frame showing a modern building corner, vertical window panels, a hedge, and surrounding leafy trees. — Tall windows and a shaded wall are partially screened by garden foliage.

1949 San Diego home-movie frame with a closer view of the windowed exterior, hedge, roofline, and dense foliage. — The camera holds on the windowed structure behind a trimmed hedge.

1949 San Diego frame of a modern exterior with tall windows, a dark hedge, and bright tree branches moving in front. — Leafy branches obscure part of the windowed building as the shot ends.

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