California USA-1952: Woman Sitting by Pool in Landscaped Garden

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Woman Sitting by Pool in Landscaped Garden — Clip Details

A woman in a light-colored suit sits beside a circular pool in a meticulously landscaped garden, captured on 8mm film in 1952. Her dark, styled hair frames her face as she holds a small handbag, with manicured hedges, blooming flowers, and a white pergola visible in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, vibrant yet slightly faded colors, and a soft focus typical of home movies from the early 1950s. The camera remains mostly static, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century leisure and garden design.

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: 123339700

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s California home-movie footage for productions needing a quiet garden leisure insert with an adult woman seated beside a circular pool.
Period detail: The light suit, structured hairstyle, manicured beds, clipped shrubs, benches, and white pergola may show mid-century garden design and visitor dress.
Home-movie behavior: The woman sits and faces the camera with a composed, personal pose, giving the scene the unstaged value of a family travel or leisure memory.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the seated woman, circular pool, blue water, planted bed, clipped hedges, white benches, and a small white pergola.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, saturated blue water, and contact-sheet framing that preserve its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief memory beat, garden cutaway, travel insert, or transition into 1950s leisure and outdoor domestic settings.
Historical context: The scene places an adult woman within a formal landscaped public or garden setting, suggesting mid-century leisure without identifying the site or event.
Research note: A recognizable adult face is visible, so likeness review may be needed in addition to normal copyright and any location or property assessment.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1952 California 8mm garden pool woman, mid-century home movie formal garden, and 1950s woman by reflecting pool.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1952 California travel footage, then with 1950s gardens, pools, and posed home-movie portraits.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 California 8mm frame of a woman seated by blue pool water in a landscaped garden with benches and flower beds behind her. — Woman seated beside a circular garden pool, with benches and planted beds in the background.

1952 California home-movie frame showing a woman by a curved pool edge, with clipped hedges, flowers, and a white pergola beyond. — The woman sits near the curved pool edge with formal garden planting behind her.

Soft-focused 1952 California 8mm frame of a seated woman partly low in frame beside a circular pool and formal garden beds. — A soft-focused view keeps the woman low in the frame beside the pool and garden beds.

Wide 1952 California garden frame with a circular blue pool, white bench, clipped shrubs, pergola, and the seated woman near the lower right edge. — The final frame widens to show more of the formal garden while the woman remains at the pool edge.

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