California USA-1952: A Lady In Red Stands By The Water And A Dam

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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A Lady In Red Stands By The Water And A Dam — Clip Details

A young woman in a red vest and white blouse stands smiling by a large dam in California, 1952. The 8mm home movie captures her cheerful expression against the backdrop of the massive concrete structure and surrounding arid mountains. The footage shows slight camera movement and natural film grain, with warm, slightly faded colors typical of vintage Super 8 film. The scene evokes mid-century Americana and personal travel memories from the early 1950s.

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: 123338901

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 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s California home-movie footage useful for documentary or museum edits needing a traveler posed near a major dam, water, and arid mountain terrain.
Period detail: The woman's red vest, white blouse, curled hair, and the 8mm color home-movie look support a mid-century travel context without identifying the dam by name.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the informal value of a travel companion smiling for the camera while the operator frames her against the dam and reservoir.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a smiling woman, red vest, white blouse, concrete dam wall, dark water, rocky slopes, and high desert mountains.
Film character: The scan shows soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that preserve the physical texture of a family travel reel.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, travel-memory beat, or cutaway linking a personal road trip with mid-century dam and reservoir scenery.
Historical context: The footage places a private traveler in a large engineered landscape, reflecting leisure travel and sightseeing around Western water infrastructure.
Research note: A visible adult face requires likeness review, and the dam or surrounding property should be assessed separately from any copyright status in the film scan.
Research search match: Searches such as 1950s California dam home movie, woman by reservoir, 8mm travel footage, and mid-century Western road trip may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same New Orleans to Pacific trip reel, then other 1952 California dam or reservoir scenes, then broader mid-century road-trip footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1952 California home-movie footage, a young woman in a red vest smiles beside dark water with a concrete dam and arid hillside behind her. — A woman poses at the reservoir edge with the dam and rocky terrain in the background.

The woman smiles near the edge of the frame, with the reservoir, concrete dam structure, and dry mountain slope visible behind her. — The camera shifts slightly as the woman remains posed in front of the dam.

The camera drifts left of the subject, leaving only part of her red vest visible while the dam, water, and rocky California landscape fill the frame. — The subject slips partly out of frame as the dam and reservoir become the main view.

A darker, underexposed frame shows the dam wall, water, and mountainous terrain without the woman clearly visible. — The final frame shifts to a darker view of the dam and surrounding mountains.

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