California-1949: Family Picnic Outdoors at Table

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

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Family Picnic Outdoors at Table — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1949 in California, showing a group of people enjoying a picnic outdoors. The scene features adults in period attire—men in suits and women in dresses and hats—gathered around a table laden with food and drinks. A woman in a white shirt and blue pants serves food while others eat and converse. The footage has natural film grain, slight motion blur, and a warm color palette typical of mid-century home movies. A title card reads 'REXES DRY LAKE LAND 59', suggesting a family outing at a local park or recreational area. The atmosphere is relaxed and nostalgic, capturing a moment of mid-20th century American leisure.

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: 122720094

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: Yes
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: 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 requests needing 1940s Southern California home-movie picnic footage for documentary, museum, education, or period lifestyle edits.
Period detail: Men in suits, women in dresses or hats, tableware, picnic containers, and handwritten title-card lettering support a late-1940s home-movie setting.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the informal family interaction as people sit, serve food, eat, and glance toward the camera during an outdoor meal.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include seated adults, a picnic table with dishes and drinks, serving containers, park grass and trees, a camera-side standing figure, and a handwritten title card.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, mild exposure variation, color fading, and handheld framing typical of mid-century home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short memory beat, domestic leisure cutaway, family-gathering insert, or transition into a broader postwar recreation sequence.
Historical context: The scene shows an outdoor social meal in period dress, offering visual context for everyday American leisure without identifying the people or exact site.
Research note: People and faces are visible, and any likeness, privacy, trademark, or location concerns should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Natural searches include 1949 San Diego family picnic, 1940s 8mm home movie outdoor meal, vintage California picnic table, and mid-century family gathering footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby same-reel family outing material, then other San Diego or 1949 California home movies, then broader 1940s picnic and outdoor leisure clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1949 San Diego home-movie frame of adults at a park picnic table with food, drinks, and a woman standing to serve. — Adults sit and eat around a picnic table while a woman stands nearby serving food.

1949 San Diego picnic scene with adults seated at a table, food and drinks laid out, and one person cropped at the right edge. — Picnic guests sit at a table with food and drinks as one person stands partly out of frame.

1949 San Diego home-movie frame showing adults in period clothing at an outdoor picnic table in a wooded park setting. — A group of adults shares food at a picnic table, with several faces visible to the camera.

Handwritten home-movie title card reads REXES DRY LAKE LAND 59, shown on a green card with film grain and edge darkness. — A handwritten title card appears at the end of the clip with the text REXES DRY LAKE LAND 59.

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