California USA-1952: Rows Of Gray Colored Bungalow Housing Units On A Clear

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Rows Of Gray Colored Bungalow Housing Units On A Clear — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a wide view of rows of gray bungalow housing units in California. The camera slowly pans across the uniform, grid-like arrangement of homes, separated by green hedges and concrete pathways. The footage shows a quiet, orderly suburban development under a clear, sunny sky, with a small green-roofed structure visible in the foreground. The grainy, slightly faded color and soft focus are characteristic of mid-century home movies, offering a nostalgic glimpse into 1950s American residential life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123339586

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s California suburban housing, planned residential development, or postwar domestic-life cutaways in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The uniform low buildings, hedges, paths, and muted color 8mm look may show a mid-century bungalow housing development in California.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a distant visitor-shot perspective, observing the patterned housing rows without staged action or visible residents.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rows of gray bungalow roofs, narrow paths, green hedges, repeating stairways, paved areas, and a small green-roofed structure.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, and handheld framing typical of amateur 8mm travel footage.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an establishing insert, transition, or quiet cutaway for postwar housing, suburbia, or travel-memory sequences.
Historical context: The view emphasizes order, repetition, and density in a residential setting without showing people, traffic, or daily household activity.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and property-context review may still be needed.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1952 California 8mm housing, gray bungalow rows, mid-century residential development, or home movie suburbia.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other California 1952 travel views, then broader mid-century housing or suburban landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 California 8mm view of repeating gray bungalow housing rows with hedges and concrete walkways. — Rows of gray bungalow housing appear in a distant, elevated view.

Distant California housing development view with patterned bungalow rows, hedges, walkways, and part of a green-roofed structure. — The camera view shifts across the orderly rows of low housing units.

Mid-century 8mm frame showing a grid of gray bungalow housing rows with hedges and a green-roofed foreground building. — A small green-roofed structure sits below the repeated housing pattern.

1952 California home-movie frame with rows of gray housing, hedge lines, concrete paths, and a green-roofed foreground structure. — The final frame widens slightly to include pavement and more of the foreground building.

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