San Francisco California-1952: Post Office Chalet with Green Door and Rolling Hills

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

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Post Office Chalet with Green Door and Rolling Hills — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures the front of a rustic wooden chalet with decorative trim and a stone foundation. The building features a green door, multi-pane windows, and a sign reading 'POST OFFICE' above the entrance. Set against a backdrop of rolling hills under a clear blue sky, the footage exhibits classic Super 8 color saturation and film grain. The camera slowly pans across the structure, highlighting its architectural details and the surrounding landscape. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American architecture and rural life.

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: 123341904

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: Useful for 1950s archival requests needing an exterior cutaway of a rustic post office or chalet-style public building in home-movie footage.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century rural or resort architecture, with painted trim, multi-pane windows, a stone base, and a simple POST OFFICE sign above the door.
Home-movie behavior: The camera studies the building from outside in a slow visitor-shot pan, preserving the kind of casual architectural detail often found in travel home movies.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a wooden facade, decorative eaves, stone foundation, green door, POST OFFICE sign, multi-pane windows, parked cars, hills, and blue sky.
Film character: The 8mm image has warm color saturation, visible grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that support its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, rural-town transition, post office cutaway, or memory beat within a mid-century travel sequence.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for a small public-facing building with chalet styling, set against hills and photographed as part of a 1952 home-movie record.
Research note: No people are visible, but the POST OFFICE sign and identifiable exterior should still be reviewed for copyright, location, property, and contextual use questions.
Research search match: Good match for searches such as 1952 8mm post office exterior, vintage chalet building, rustic wood public building, and mid-century travel home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1952 San Francisco or California exteriors, then broader rural post office and chalet architecture footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 home-movie frame of a rustic wooden post office exterior with decorative trim, stone foundation, parked cars, and hills behind it. — The pan begins on the post office entrance, with hills and parked cars visible to the left.

Cataloged 1952 California frame showing the front of a chalet-style post office with painted trim, multi-pane windows, and hills in the background. — The camera centers the entrance and upper wood facade, showing the POST OFFICE sign and window details.

1952 8mm frame during a pan across the chalet-style post office, focusing on the wood siding, ornamental trim, stone base, and window row. — The pan moves across the building, emphasizing the facade, trim, and multi-pane windows.

End of the 1952 home-movie pan across the rustic post office exterior, showing ornamental trim, a painted tree motif, windows, and stone foundation. — The shot finishes on the right side of the facade, with the window row and decorative wall detail visible.

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