San Francisco California-1952: Beautiful Sunset View From A Privileged Location

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1952 San Francisco California

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Beautiful Sunset View From A Privileged Location — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a serene sunset over the San Francisco Bay. The warm golden light of the setting sun glows on the horizon, casting silhouettes of rocky shores and gentle waves. The scene transitions to a distant view of the Golden Gate Bridge, its iconic structure visible against a dusky blue sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, scratches, and film artifacts, offering authentic archival quality. This nostalgic clip evokes mid-century Americana and is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or historical storytelling.

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: 123340959

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: San Francisco, 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: 1950s San Francisco Bay home-movie footage suited to documentary inserts, place-setting transitions, or archival sequences about travel, waterfront views, and the Golden Gate Bridge.
Period detail: The 8mm color image, soft exposure, and distant Golden Gate Bridge view support a mid-century visitor perspective, while specific vantage point details remain unconfirmed.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, lingering on sunset, shoreline silhouettes, water, and a distant bridge rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a low sunset, rocky shoreline, dark foreground silhouettes, bay water, window-like film edges, hazy sky, and distant Golden Gate Bridge spans.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm texture with visible grain, dust, scratches, soft focus, uneven exposure, and slight handheld framing that reads as original physical-film material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quiet establishing insert, travel-memory beat, waterfront cutaway, or transition between San Francisco and broader 1950s California material.
Historical context: The frames show leisure or travel-oriented viewing of San Francisco Bay, emphasizing landscape and landmark recognition rather than identifiable people or activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location use, and any property or landmark context should still be reviewed for the intended release.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1950s San Francisco Bay 8mm, Golden Gate Bridge home movie, California sunset archival footage, and vintage waterfront travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with 1952 San Francisco or Bay Area material, then with broader 1950s California travel and sunset views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 8mm view of a warm sunset over San Francisco Bay with rocky shoreline silhouettes and low waves in the foreground. — Sunset glows over the bay beyond a dark rocky shoreline.

Dim 8mm frame with a dark triangular foreground silhouette and dusky blue sky, likely part of the same San Francisco Bay home-movie sequence. — A dark foreground silhouette interrupts the dusk sky.

1952 San Francisco Bay view with the Golden Gate Bridge seen in soft focus across blue water under a pale sky. — The Golden Gate Bridge appears across the bay in hazy blue light.

Soft 8mm view of the Golden Gate Bridge spanning San Francisco Bay, with water in the foreground and a muted blue sky behind it. — A distant bridge span crosses the bay under a muted sky.

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