San Francisco California-1952: Long Tree Shown In Forest At Some Hill Station

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

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Long Tree Shown In Forest At Some Hill Station — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a towering tree trunk in a dense forest. Sunlight filters through the canopy, creating dappled light and lens flare on the textured bark. The camera slowly pans downward, revealing mossy undergrowth and the forest floor. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and soft focus, evoking a nostalgic, naturalistic mood. This archival clip offers authentic 1950s forest scenery, ideal for historical or nature-themed projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-upExterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123342241

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s 8mm forest footage for editors needing a brief nature cutaway, travel-memory insert, or archival transition within a California home-movie sequence.
Period detail: The frames show no datable clothing, vehicles, signage, or landmarks, so the 1952 period comes from metadata rather than visible evidence.
Home-movie behavior: The slow handheld view of a tree trunk and surrounding woods reflects an unstaged home-movie interest in scale, texture, and the experience of looking upward in a forest.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tall tree trunks, dark canopy gaps, mottled sunlight, mossy undergrowth, soft focus, vertical film edges, and a slight contact-print or scan alignment bar.
Film character: The clip carries an 8mm home-movie look with visible grain, cool color shifts, uneven exposure, soft detail, and handheld framing that preserve the material feel of the source film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short forest cutaway, a quiet transition between outdoor scenes, or a memory beat suggesting travel, nature, or wooded terrain.
Historical context: As a home-movie forest view, the clip documents mid-century amateur attention to natural scenery without showing people, buildings, signage, or specific civic context.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private interiors are visible, but copyright, location verification, and any property considerations should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1950s 8mm forest, vintage California woods, home movie tree trunk, archival nature cutaway, and old film woodland scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1952 San Francisco or California outdoor footage, and finally with other vintage forest or nature cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 8mm home-movie frame from the San Francisco, California metadata set showing a tall tree trunk against a dim forest canopy. — A vertical tree trunk stands in a shaded forest with bright canopy openings behind it.

A large textured tree trunk fills the right side of this 1952 8mm forest frame, with shaded green woods in the background. — A broad tree trunk anchors the frame as the camera looks into dense, shaded woods.

The 8mm frame shows a tree trunk descending toward mossy undergrowth in a shaded forest, with soft grain and muted color. — The camera has moved lower on the tree trunk, revealing darker understory and patches of green growth.

A broad tree trunk fills the right side of the 1952 8mm frame, with dark green forest floor and foliage receding behind it. — A broad trunk and dense forest floor complete the downward pan through the wooded setting.

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