San Diego California USA-1949: Outside Of A Small Modernist House Among Trees

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

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Outside Of A Small Modernist House Among Trees — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1949 showing a modernist house in San Diego, California, viewed through a dark frame. The house features large glass windows and a flat roof, partially obscured by a lush green hedge and a fruit-bearing citrus tree. The film exhibits natural color fading, slight grain, and a soft focus typical of mid-century amateur recordings. The camera remains steady, capturing the quiet, sunlit suburban scene with a 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: 122720028

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 Southern California residential cutaways, mid-century suburban atmosphere, or establishing material for San Diego home-movie sequences.
Period detail: The flat roof, broad glass panels, and low garden screening may show postwar modernist residential design in a sunlit San Diego setting.
Home-movie behavior: The steady view through a dark film-frame edge gives the scene an observational home-movie quality, focused on place rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small modernist house, large windows, a flat roofline, dense hedge, citrus tree with fruit, lawn, shadows, and dark frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, mild grain, color fading, and uneven exposure that read as physical-film texture from a mid-century amateur reel.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet exterior insert, neighborhood transition, architectural cutaway, or memory beat between family or travel scenes.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for domestic landscaping and modern residential architecture in postwar San Diego without identifying the specific property.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are visible or indicated, but exterior residential property and copyright status should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1949 San Diego home movie, 8mm modernist house exterior, California suburban garden, citrus tree, and mid-century residence footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1949 San Diego exteriors, then broader mid-century California residential or garden footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1949 San Diego 8mm frame showing a flat-roofed modernist house behind a hedge and fruit-bearing tree. — A small modernist house sits behind a hedge and citrus tree in bright sunlight.

1949 San Diego home-movie frame with broad windows, a flat roof, hedge, and citrus branches partly obscuring the house. — Large windows and a flat roofline are partly screened by dense garden growth.

A 1949 San Diego residential exterior, with a citrus tree and hedge blocking much of the modernist house facade. — The citrus tree fills the foreground, leaving only part of the house visible.

Final 1949 San Diego frame showing the house mostly hidden by a hedge and citrus tree, with dark film borders visible. — The house recedes behind the hedge and fruiting tree near the end of the shot.

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