San Francisco California-1937: Woman Pauses By Fountain In Courtyard

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

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Woman Pauses By Fountain In Courtyard — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1937, this vintage home movie captures a woman in a light-colored coat and hat pausing near a large fountain in a sunlit courtyard. She looks around as another woman in a dark coat walks past, with vibrant yellow flowers lining the pool. The scene, filmed with natural film grain and slight motion blur, evokes a quiet moment of urban life in mid-century San Francisco, with flags and manicured greenery in the background.

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: 124760687

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 urban-life edits needing a quiet courtyard fountain cutaway with pedestrians in home-movie color footage.
Period detail: The clip may show 1930s public-garden dress, including brimmed hats, knee-length coats, formal walking clothes, flags, clipped shrubs, and planted flower borders.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged visitor-shot pause as one woman waits or looks around while another passes through the frame near the fountain.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large fountain pool, yellow flower border, paved walkway, two adult women, flags, trimmed greenery, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft color, visible grain, gate edges, slight weave, and handheld framing that give the brief scene clear home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an insert, transition, or memory beat for prewar San Francisco, public gardens, travel footage, or everyday city observation.
Historical context: The scene gives visual context for formal public-space strolling and landscaped civic or garden settings without identifying a specific landmark from the frames alone.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or audible music are apparent, and copyright status is separate from likeness concerns.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1937 8mm San Francisco fountain footage, women walking by courtyard pool, vintage home movie public garden, and 1930s city travel scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1937 San Francisco material, then related fountain, garden, pedestrian, and travel-home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1937 San Francisco home-movie frame of a woman in a light coat near a large courtyard fountain and yellow flower border. — A woman pauses on the walkway in front of the fountain pool and planted border.

1937 San Francisco frame showing a woman in a light coat moving past a fountain pool bordered by flowers and greenery. — The woman moves along the walkway as the fountain rises behind her.

1937 San Francisco home-movie frame with two adult women crossing near a fountain pool and flower border. — Two women appear on the walkway in front of the fountain and planted pool edge.

1937 San Francisco frame of two women near a courtyard fountain, with yellow flowers, clipped shrubs, and flags behind the pool. — The women share the foreground as the fountain and landscaped border fill the background.

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