San Diego California USA-1949: Small Ranch Style House and Woman in Red Suit Walking in Desert

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

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Small Ranch Style House and Woman in Red Suit Walking in... — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1949 in San Diego, California, showing a small yellow ranch-style house with a dark roof nestled in a dry, shrub-filled desert landscape. The film captures a woman in a red suit and hat walking through the arid terrain, with utility poles and distant hills visible under a hazy sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and natural light typical of mid-century amateur film, evoking a nostalgic, documentary-style glimpse into mid-20th century American life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 122720424

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: Supports 1940s Southern California home-movie requests needing a rural desert dwelling, arid landscape, and a lone adult figure for documentary or period context.
Period detail: The small ranch-style house, utility poles, hat, and tailored red suit may show late-1940s residential edge-of-town life in the San Diego area.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie feel, observing a woman walking through open scrubland near a modest house rather than performing for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a yellow house, dry shrubs, sandy ground, utility poles, distant hills, hazy sky, and a woman in a red suit and hat.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, muted color, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing consistent with mid-century amateur film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing cutaway, transition, or memory beat for rural Southern California, desert housing, or postwar domestic life.
Historical context: The footage visually suggests a sparsely developed residential landscape with utility lines and dry vegetation, without identifying a specific neighborhood or event.
Research note: An adult person is visible and the house appears identifiable, so likeness and property review may be needed separate from any copyright assessment.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1949 San Diego 8mm home movie, desert ranch house, woman in red suit, rural California house, and dry scrub landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1949 San Diego material, and then with rural homes, desert landscapes, or mid-century travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1949 San Diego-area home-movie frame showing a small yellow ranch-style house set among dry shrubs under a hazy sky. — A modest yellow house stands in an arid shrub-filled landscape with distant hills behind it.

1949 San Diego-area frame of a modest yellow house across scrubby desert vegetation, with muted color and soft focus. — The house is framed across low desert plants, with the porch and dark window openings visible.

1949 San Diego-area home-movie frame showing an adult woman in a red suit walking through dry scrub near a small house. — A woman in red walks through the open desert ground, with a utility pole and house at the edge of frame.

1949 San Diego-area frame of an adult woman in a red suit and hat in dry terrain, with utility poles and a house nearby. — The woman pauses or walks through the scrubby lot as utility poles and distant hills line the background.

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