New Orleans USA-1952: Woman in Blue Dress by Historical Marker

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationNew Orleans, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1952 New Orleans

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Woman in Blue Dress by Historical Marker — Clip Details

A young woman in a blue dress with a white collar stands beside a historical marker for Mission San José in 1952. The vintage 8mm film captures her posing in a grassy field, with the sign detailing the mission's founding by Fray Antonio Margil in 1720. The footage shows slight camera movement and the characteristic grain of home movie film, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century travel and Americana. The scene transitions to a view of the mission's white stucco walls and surrounding greenery.

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: 123336603

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 1863 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1952
Reel-level location note: new orleans
Date: 1952 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: New Orleans, 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: Serves a 1950s American road-trip or Texas history segment; usable as a travel insert or personal-memory beat in mid-century documentary and commercial contexts.
Period detail: The full-skirted blue dress, white collar, and bracelet are consistent with early-1950s American women's fashion; Kodachrome-like color saturation confirms mid-century home-movie stock.
Home-movie behavior: Classic travel-stop snapshot behavior — a companion films a woman posing beside a roadside historical marker during what the reel tags identify as a New Orleans-to-Pacific cross-country trip.
What appears in frame: Young woman in blue dress, wooden Mission San José historical marker with orange text, manicured green lawn, agave plant, white stucco mission wall, pink flowering shrubs, large tree trunk.
Film character: Saturated Kodachrome-style color with visible grain, slight edge softness, and gentle handheld drift typical of 8mm home-movie stock from the early 1950s.
Edit role: Works as a travel-stop insert or landmark-pose cutaway; the final exterior shot can open or close a Texas mission sequence or mid-century road-trip montage.
Historical context: The sign identifies Mission San José as 'Queen of the Missions,' a designation tied to its Franciscan history in what is now San Antonio, TX; the New Orleans–Pacific reel context places this circa 1952.
Research note: Adult woman's face is clearly identifiable and unverified; clip title lists New Orleans but the visible sign points to San Antonio, TX — confirm filming location before asserting clearance.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for '1950s Texas mission visit,' 'mid-century road trip home movie,' 'Mission San José historical marker,' or 'American travel footage 1952.'
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same New Orleans–Pacific reel; then 1950s San Antonio or Texas landmark footage; then mid-century American road-trip travel montage clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Young woman in early-1950s blue dress posing beside the Mission San José historical marker, likely San Antonio, Texas, circa 1952. — Woman posing beside the Mission San José marker, c. 1952.

Close-up of a young woman in a 1950s blue dress with white bow details posed beside the Mission San José 'Queen of the Missions' sign, circa 1952. — Close-up of woman and Mission San José sign, c. 1952.

Partial figure of a woman in a 1950s blue dress near the Mission San José historical marker, showing natural handheld camera movement, circa 1952. — Partial figure near Mission San José sign during camera drift, c. 1952.

White stucco exterior wall with pink flowering plants and a large tree, likely Mission San José in San Antonio, Texas, circa 1952. — Mission exterior wall with flowering plants, c. 1952.

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