San Francisco California-1953: A Large Building With A Large Beautiful Ocean

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

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A Large Building With A Large Beautiful Ocean — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a large, modernist building with a prominent sign reading 'SEATTLE - TACOMA AIRPORT' under a clear sky. The scene, framed by a dark border suggesting a window view, shows the building's white facade and rows of windows, with trees and a pole in the foreground. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color shifts, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century architecture and travel infrastructure.

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: 123343191

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: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 travel footage suited to documentary inserts about mid-century air travel, ocean passage, and visitor-shot transportation scenes.
Period detail: The airport facade signage and ship-deck views may show mid-century travel infrastructure, with period cues in the modernist building, lifeboats, railings, and color 8mm stock.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged traveler viewpoint, moving from a window-framed terminal view to handheld shipboard looks over open water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an airport building sign, window or gate framing, a ship's bow area, deck railings, lifeboat equipment, ocean horizon, and wake.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, soft focus, mild exposure fluctuation, blue color shift, and dark frame edges that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief travel insert, transport transition, shipboard cutaway, or memory beat connecting airport departure and ocean voyage imagery.
Historical context: The scenes suggest leisure or travel documentation rather than official coverage, showing transportation spaces from a private camera perspective.
Research note: Visible airport signage and vessel details may require identification review; copyright, trademark, and property considerations remain separate from likeness clearance.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1950s 8mm airport building, Seattle Tacoma Airport sign, vintage ship deck ocean, and mid-century home movie travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then with same-year San Francisco or Pacific Coast travel material, then with broader airport, ship, and ocean voyage themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1950s 8mm frame of a modernist airport building with Seattle Tacoma Airport signage, viewed through dark vertical framing. — Window-framed view of the airport facade and signage.

Handheld 8mm shipboard view showing the vessel side, lifeboat gear, railings, and blue ocean horizon. — Ship deck equipment and railings over open water.

1950s 8mm shipboard frame with railings and lifeboat gear tilted over blue water and white wake. — Angled view along the ship side toward the ocean wake.

Handheld 8mm view from a ship, with deck railings and lifeboat equipment beside choppy blue ocean. — Shipboard railings and lifeboat equipment beside choppy water.

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