San Diego California USA-1949: People Sitting Down At Picnic Table On A Clear

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

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People Sitting Down At Picnic Table On A Clear — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1949 in San Diego, California, capturing a nostalgic outdoor picnic scene. A group of people, including a woman in a yellow headscarf and a man in a light suit, gather around a white table laden with food. Others wear period-appropriate attire, including a woman in a white blouse and blue skirt with a hairnet. The setting is a grassy park with trees in the background, under bright daylight. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122720087

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 everyday leisure, outdoor family or social gathering footage in San Diego for documentary, museum, education, or editorial edits.
Period detail: Clothing such as headscarves, a light suit, high-waisted blue skirt, and picnic tableware may show late-1940s social dress and casual recreation habits.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the informal, unstaged gathering as adults lean, sit, serve food, and talk around a picnic table while the camera observes from close range.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include adults around a white picnic table, food containers, cups, a yellow headscarf, a light suit, blue skirt, lawn, and dark trees.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, handheld framing, visible grain, uneven exposure, color fading, and contact-sheet edge artifacts consistent with original home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, social-history cutaway, family-memory beat, or transition into a sequence about postwar leisure or park picnics.
Historical context: The clip shows an outdoor group meal in a grassy park setting, offering visual context for casual mid-century social life without identifying the people or exact site.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos, minors, or private property are apparent, and copyright status is separate from likeness clearance.
Research search match: Search matches include 1949 San Diego 8mm picnic, 1940s outdoor family gathering, home movie park meal, adults at picnic table, and mid-century social recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1949 San Diego material, then with 1940s picnic, park, food, and social-gathering footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1949 San Diego home-movie frame showing adults near a white picnic table in a grassy park, including a woman in a yellow headscarf. — Adults stand and sit around a food-covered picnic table in a shaded park setting.

1949 San Diego outdoor picnic scene with adults in period clothing seated and standing around a white table set with food. — Adults converse around a picnic table, with a woman in a white blouse and blue skirt standing nearby.

1949 San Diego home-movie frame of a man in a light suit and several adults around a picnic table in a park. — A man in a light suit stands beside seated adults at a white picnic table.

1949 San Diego park picnic frame with adults seated and standing around a table, filmed with soft 8mm color and handheld framing. — The picnic group continues serving and talking around the table in the park.

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