San Diego California USA-1949: Small Grave Site Wooden Cross Flowers Windmill

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

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Small Grave Site Wooden Cross Flowers Windmill — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1949 in San Diego, California, showing a small wooden cross grave marker adorned with yellow and purple wildflowers in a sandy, arid landscape. The scene transitions to a rural desert setting with a tall metal windmill, a water tower on wooden supports, and a few people standing near the structures. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and authentic 1940s home movie quality, capturing a quiet moment of remembrance and rural life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122720391

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1940s archival requests for San Diego-area home-movie inserts involving a small grave marker, roadside remembrance, and rural desert water infrastructure.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, simple wooden cross, wildflowers, windmill, and elevated water tank may show mid-century rural surroundings consistent with the 1949 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes quietly from a visitor or family perspective, lingering on a handmade grave marker before cutting to nearby rural structures and people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wooden cross, yellow and purple flowers, sandy ground, scrub vegetation, a metal windmill, an elevated water tank, fence posts, and distant people.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, mild fading, handheld framing, and exposure shifts that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a reflective memory beat, rural-life cutaway, transition from memorial detail to landscape, or brief establishing insert.
Historical context: The footage places a personal memorial detail within an arid rural setting, suggesting everyday remembrance near working water structures without proving a specific event.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, and the grave marker is sensitive; copyright, likeness, location, and memorial-use context should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1949 San Diego 8mm grave marker, small wooden cross flowers, rural California windmill, and home movie water tower footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1949 San Diego material, then broader rural California, memorial, windmill, or water-tower scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1949 San Diego-area 8mm frame showing a small wooden cross decorated with yellow and purple flowers in dry sandy soil. — A handmade wooden cross with wildflowers rests in an arid patch of ground.

Close home-movie view of a small flower-adorned wooden cross in a dry San Diego-area landscape, matching the 1949 clip metadata. — The camera holds on the flower-decorated grave marker from a nearby angle.

1949 San Diego-area rural scene with a tall metal windmill, elevated water tank, scrub vegetation, fence posts, and distant people. — A windmill and water tank stand over a dry rural area with people nearby.

Rural 8mm frame showing a windmill, elevated water tank on wooden supports, sparse vegetation, and people near the structures. — People stand near a windmill and raised water tank in the dry landscape.

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