San Diego California USA-1949: Wooden Cross with Yellow Flower on Ground

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

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Wooden Cross with Yellow Flower on Ground — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from San Diego, California, 1949, showing a handmade wooden cross planted in sandy soil. A bright yellow flower rests on the crossbeam, with small purple and yellow wildflowers growing nearby. The scene is set in a dry, sunlit environment with visible film grain and natural lighting, capturing a quiet, personal memorial in a rustic outdoor setting. The footage has a nostalgic, documentary quality typical of mid-century home movies.

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: 122720377

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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 archival requests needing a quiet outdoor memorial, religious object, or personal remembrance cutaway from San Diego home-movie footage.
Period detail: The handmade wooden cross, sandy ground, small flowers, and 8mm color texture may show a modest mid-century personal memorial rather than a formal cemetery marker.
Home-movie behavior: The brief shot has the still, close observational quality of a home-movie camera pausing on a personal object with no staged action visible in these frames.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a rough wooden cross, yellow flower on the crossbeam, purple and yellow flowers nearby, sandy soil, small stones, plant stems, and hard sunlight.
Film character: The footage carries visible 8mm grain, slight softness, high-contrast sun exposure, and minor frame-edge darkness consistent with scanned physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a solemn insert, memory beat, religious cutaway, or transition into themes of mourning, pilgrimage, family remembrance, or dry California landscapes.
Historical context: The scene visually suggests a small personal or religious marker in a dry outdoor setting, but the frames do not identify the person, site, or occasion.
Research note: Rights review should note the religious or memorial subject and the metadata flag for people visible, while copyright, likeness, and property questions remain separate checks.
Research search match: Researchers might find this under 1949 San Diego 8mm home movie wooden cross, flowers on grave marker, outdoor memorial, religious symbol, or handmade roadside cross.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other San Diego 1949 material, then broader footage of memorials, crosses, flowers, and personal remembrance objects.

Still Frames From This Clip

1949 San Diego home-movie frame showing a rough wooden cross set in sandy ground with a yellow flower and nearby purple and yellow blooms. — A handmade wooden cross rests in dry soil with flowers placed and growing around it.

1949 San Diego home-movie frame of a simple wooden cross in bright sun, with a yellow flower on the crossbeam and small blooms nearby. — Bright sunlight falls across a small wooden cross and flowers in sandy soil.

1949 San Diego home-movie frame showing a handmade wooden cross, rough soil, scattered stones, and small flowers under strong daylight. — A close, sunlit view records the cross, surrounding soil, and small flowers.

1949 San Diego home-movie frame of a rustic wooden cross in dry ground, with flowers arranged around the marker in bright sun. — The final frame holds on the rough wooden cross and flowers in a dry outdoor setting.

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