California USA-1952: Woman Passes By Driving Beautiful Car On The Road With

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Woman Passes By Driving Beautiful Car On The Road With — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a woman driving a classic car through a sun-drenched California landscape. The clip opens with a dark, shadowed interior shot before transitioning to sweeping views of a vast desert expanse with a large body of water and a distant island under a clear blue sky. The woman, wearing a red top, is seen in profile as the car moves along the road, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century American road travel. The footage exhibits natural film grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic framing of a home movie, evoking a sense of personal history and 1950s Americana.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Interior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123339223

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 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 road travel footage suited for documentary inserts about mid-century motoring, desert tourism, or personal vacation journeys.
Period detail: The rounded sedan profile, color 8mm look, and metadata-supported 1952 date place the clip in an early-1950s American road-trip setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from inside or beside a moving car, giving the scene the informal, passing-view quality of family travel footage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a car window or interior edge, desert scrub, blue water, a distant island or low hills, bright sky, and a woman passing in a dark sedan.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, slight color fading, and handheld framing that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel insert, road-trip transition, landscape cutaway, or memory beat between broader California vacation scenes.
Historical context: The clip shows private mid-century automobile travel through a dry California landscape with water views, without enough detail to identify the exact route or landmark.
Research note: A woman is visible in profile, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from visible-person concerns.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1952 California 8mm road trip, woman driving vintage car, desert lake view, mid-century home movie travel, and family vacation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1952 California travel views, then broader mid-century American road-trip or vacation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

An overexposed 8mm frame appears to look from a dark car interior toward bright outdoor California desert light. — Dark interior framing opens onto a bright exterior view.

A 1952 California road-trip view shows desert scrub, blue water, and a distant island or low hills under a pale sky. — Desert landscape looks across water toward distant landforms.

Woman passes by in a dark sedan during the road-trip scene.

The closing frame returns to a California desert water view, with scrub in the foreground and a distant island or low hills across the water. — A second landscape view shows water beyond the desert foreground.

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