San Francisco California-1952: Woman Posing with City Overview

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

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Woman Posing with City Overview — Clip Details

A young woman in a light-colored sweater and collared shirt poses on a high vantage point overlooking San Francisco in 1952. Shot on 8mm film, the clip captures a hazy, sun-drenched cityscape with dense buildings stretching into the distance. The woman stands near the edge, smiling faintly at the camera, her dark hair styled in a classic 1950s bob. The footage shows natural film grain, slight color fading, and a soft focus typical of vintage home movies. The scene evokes a sense of personal memory and mid-century Americana, with trees visible in the foreground and the city's iconic layout unfolding behind her.

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: 123341419

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: 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s San Francisco home-movie requests needing a personal travel view from a high overlook with a posed adult woman and broad city background.
Period detail: The woman's bobbed hairstyle, light sweater, collared shirt, and soft color 8mm look support the supplied 1952 mid-century setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the informal value of a traveler or family member pausing to pose at a scenic viewpoint while the camera records a brief personal memory.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an adult woman, light sweater, hazy city grid, distant buildings, dark foreground trees, sloped overlook edge, and film gate borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief memory beat, location insert, travel transition, or cutaway from a broader San Francisco sequence.
Historical context: The scene shows a mid-century visitor perspective on San Francisco, emphasizing personal presence against a dense urban landscape rather than a named landmark.
Research note: An identifiable adult face is visible, so likeness review may be needed in addition to any copyright or archive licensing checks.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1952 San Francisco home movie, 8mm woman at city overlook, mid-century California travel footage, and vintage cityscape with posed woman.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1952 San Francisco material, and then with broader 1950s travel-overlook or city-view footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Adult woman poses at a high San Francisco vantage point in 1952, with trees and a hazy cityscape behind her. — A woman stands near the edge of an overlook with the city spread out below.

Adult woman in a light sweater faces the camera at a San Francisco overlook, with the distant city softened by haze. — The woman looks toward the camera as the city fills the background.

Closer 1952 home-movie frame of a woman at a San Francisco viewpoint, with a soft city grid behind her. — A closer frame centers the woman against the bright, hazy city below.

The woman moves partly out of frame while the San Francisco city view and dark tree line remain visible. — The final frame leaves the woman partly cropped as the city view takes over.

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