San Francisco California-1937: Formal Garden with Fountain and Flowers

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Year1937
Decade1930s
LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1937 San Francisco California

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Formal Garden with Fountain and Flowers — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1937, this vintage home movie captures people strolling through a formal garden in San Francisco, California. A woman in a light coat and hat walks near a reflecting pool bordered by vibrant orange and yellow flowers. In the background, a group of men in military-style uniforms stands near a large white building with an arched entrance. The scene includes a prominent fountain with sculpted figures and water jets, surrounded by manicured greenery. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking a nostalgic mid-20th century atmosphere.

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: 124760564

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1937 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: San Francisco, California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s San Francisco archival requests needing brief garden, civic building, fountain, or public strolling atmosphere for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The clothing, hats, uniformed group, formal planting beds, and 8mm color home-movie look support a late-1930s public garden setting in San Francisco.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, observing people walking near a reflecting pool and fountain without staged action or direct address to camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white arched building, reflecting pool, flower borders, a woman in a light coat and hat, uniformed men, shrubs, fountain spray, and sculpted fountain forms.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight blur, handheld framing, and gate-edge contact-sheet borders that give it physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, memory beat, or transition for 1930s San Francisco public gardens, civic spaces, or leisure scenes.
Historical context: The scene documents formal landscaping and public movement around a building and fountain, with uniformed men present but no visible ceremony or identifiable event in these frames.
Research note: People and faces are visible at a distance, and the uniformed group may require contextual review; copyright, likeness, and location/property issues should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1937 8mm San Francisco garden footage, vintage fountain home movie, formal public garden visitors, and 1930s people walking near civic architecture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1937 San Francisco footage, then broader 1930s garden, fountain, civic building, or public leisure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1937 San Francisco home-movie frame showing visitors and uniformed men near a reflecting pool, flower border, shrubs, and a white arched building. — Visitors stand and walk beside a reflecting pool and flower bed near a white arched building.

A woman in a light coat and hat walks beside a reflecting pool in a formal San Francisco garden, with shrubs and a white building behind her. — A woman walks along the edge of the reflecting pool in the formal garden.

Uniformed men gather near a white arched building while two pedestrians pass beside the reflecting pool in this 1937 San Francisco garden scene. — A small group of uniformed men stands near the building as pedestrians pass the pool.

A fountain with sculpted figures and water jets rises behind planting beds while a woman stands near the pool in a San Francisco garden frame. — The fountain and planted pool edge fill the frame as a woman stands in the lower foreground.

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