San Francisco California-1952: Woman Walking and Cable Car on Hill

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

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Woman Walking and Cable Car on Hill — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a woman in a black sweater and plaid skirt walking along a sun-dappled sidewalk in San Francisco. Her confident stride and period-appropriate attire reflect mid-century style. The scene transitions to a classic cable car ascending a steep hill, its red and cream exterior gleaming under the bright sky. The footage showcases the city's iconic transportation and urban landscape, with visible film grain and color shifts characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era.

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: 123341834

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 street life, period dress, and cable car transit for documentary or educational editing.
Period detail: The woman's black sweater, plaid skirt, low heels, steep street, overhead wires, and red-and-cream cable car support a mid-century San Francisco setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged home-movie feel, moving from a casually filmed pedestrian moment to a visitor-like view of a cable car climbing a hill.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman walking by a wall, dappled tree shadows, sidewalk, steep street, rail tracks, utility poles, parked car, and cable car.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, color shift, gate edges, and handheld framing that give the footage physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, location transition, urban memory beat, or cutaway between broader San Francisco or 1950s travel scenes.
Historical context: The footage visually connects everyday pedestrian life with San Francisco's recognizable hill transit without making claims beyond the visible street scene.
Research note: People and a visible face require likeness review; copyright, location, and any incidental property considerations should be checked separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s San Francisco 8mm home movie, woman walking on sidewalk, cable car on steep hill, and vintage urban street footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then 1952 San Francisco material, then broader 1950s city street and public transit footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A woman in mid-century clothing walks beside a wall on a sun-dappled San Francisco sidewalk. — Woman walking along a sidewalk with tree shadows on the wall behind her.

Sunlight and tree shadows fall across a wall and sidewalk after the woman has moved out of frame. — Dappled shadows across a sidewalk and wall.

A red-and-cream cable car climbs a steep San Francisco street with tracks, buildings, and utility poles visible. — Cable car ascending a steep street toward the camera.

A cable car fills more of the frame as it climbs a steep San Francisco hill past a parked car and street rails. — Cable car nearing the camera on a steep hill street.

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