California USA-1952: State Court Building Front Yard

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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State Court Building Front Yard — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures the front yard of a California State building, likely a courthouse. The scene features a large pond with lily pads and a curved green hedge, flanked by benches and manicured shrubbery. The building's facade displays 'CALIFORNIA STATE' above a central entrance, with arched windows and a formal, institutional design. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, color shifts, and a slightly soft focus, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American atmosphere. This archival clip offers authentic period detail for documentaries, historical projects, or retro-themed content.

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: 123339629

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: 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s California civic-building exterior requests, especially documentary inserts needing a quiet institutional frontage and landscaped public grounds.
Period detail: The frames may show a mid-century state or court-related building with formal stonework, arched windows, benches, clipped planting, and a pond with lily pads.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective from a distance, lingering on the pond and entrance area rather than staging people or activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the building facade, partial California State lettering, central entrance, pond, lily pads, curved hedge, benches, shrubs, and a lamppost.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, saturated blue-green color shifts, visible grain, dark frame borders, and slight exposure variation across the contact frames.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an establishing cutaway, transitional memory beat, or quiet insert for travel, civic architecture, or California archival sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents landscaped civic grounds and formal public architecture as seen by a home-movie camera during a 1952 California travel context.
Research note: No people are visible, but the building lettering and institutional facade may require identification review, with copyright and property concerns assessed separately.
Research search match: Searches this may match include 1952 California 8mm state building exterior, vintage courthouse grounds, pond and lily pads, and home movie civic architecture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with 1952 California locations, and then with related civic-building, road-trip, or landscaped-public-space clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 California home-movie view of a state building facade, entrance steps, pond, lily pads, hedge, and benches. — State building frontage seen across a landscaped pond and low hedge.

Home-movie frame of a California civic facade with entrance area, bench, lamppost, pond, lily pads, and manicured planting. — A bench and lamppost sit near the entrance, with lily pads in the foreground pond.

1952 8mm view across a landscaped pond toward a California state building entrance, benches, hedge, and surrounding shrubs. — The camera holds on the pond and clipped landscaping before the civic entrance.

Soft 8mm frame of a landscaped California civic frontage with pond, lily pads, hedge, bench, lamppost, and building entrance. — Lily pads and the curved hedge dominate the foreground, with the entrance set back behind them.

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