California USA-1952: Man Stands At Park Sign, Dam And Mountain View

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Man Stands At Park Sign, Dam And Mountain View — Clip Details

A man in a striped sweater and light-colored pants stands beside a stone sign reading 'ANYON' and 'AL PARK' at a California park entrance in 1952. The scene transitions to a wide view of a massive dam and reservoir nestled between rugged mountains under a bright sky. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the era's vibrant colors and grainy texture, evoking a nostalgic sense of mid-century American travel and infrastructure.

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: 123338780

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 1234 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: miss universe
Reel-level year note: 1952
Reel-level location note: california
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: 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: Useful for 1950s California travel, park-entrance, reservoir, dam, and mountain-infrastructure requests needing real 8mm home-movie material.
Period detail: The striped sweater, roadside-style stone park sign, color 8mm stock, and visitor framing support a mid-century travel record, with the 1952 date supplied by metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged tourist perspective, moving from a posed adult at a park sign to scenic reservoir and dam views filmed from a lookout.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an adult man, partial park sign lettering, stone sign base, trees, rugged mountains, reservoir water, dam wall, and bright daylight.
Film character: The footage shows saturated 8mm color, soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure shifts, and handheld framing typical of scanned mid-century home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief travel insert, infrastructure cutaway, location transition, or memory beat between personal road-trip scenes and landscape views.
Historical context: The footage places a private traveler against public recreation signage and large-scale water infrastructure, reflecting visitor attention to parks and engineered landscapes.
Research note: A visible adult face and readable sign elements may require likeness, location, and trademark-style review separate from copyright status.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1952 California 8mm park sign, man at park entrance, vintage dam reservoir view, mountain lake home movie, and mid-century road trip footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel New Orleans to Pacific trip footage, then California 1952 park or dam scenes, then broader mid-century road-trip and infrastructure material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Adult man in a striped sweater stands beside a stone park sign in California, from 1952 home-movie footage. — A traveler poses next to a partial park entrance sign in bright outdoor light.

Wide California reservoir and mountain view with a dam wall visible at the edge of the frame, dated 1952 by metadata. — A reservoir sits below rugged mountain slopes with part of a dam wall visible.

Scenic 1952 California home-movie view of reservoir water, pale rocks, mountain slopes, and a dam structure. — The camera frames a reservoir and dam set among rocky mountain terrain.

Reservoir and dam view in mountainous California terrain, seen in grainy color 8mm footage from 1952. — A dam and rocky reservoir shoreline are seen from a distant overlook.

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