San Francisco California-1939: Holy Land Building and Norway's Ski Lodge

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationSan Francisco, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 California

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Holy Land Building and Norway's Ski Lodge — Clip Details

SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA-1939: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a mysterious scene at a building marked 'Holy Land' with a shadowy figure in the doorway. The footage then shifts to Norway's Ski Lodge, showing a wooden sign and rustic log cabin with a grass roof. Two women in period attire stand near the lodge entrance, one in a blue dress and hat, the other in a dark coat. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a handheld perspective, evoking a nostalgic 1930s travelogue feel.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Handheld
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: 124763116

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: 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 1166 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: may
Reel-level year note: 1939
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1939 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: 1930s San Francisco 8mm travel footage suited to documentary inserts about visitor attractions, themed architecture, leisure sites, or prewar amateur tourism.
Period detail: The women’s hats and dresses, rustic lodge signage, and handheld color 8mm look support a late-1930s travel-home-movie reading, with the stated 1939 date treated as high-confidence metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, moving from a shadowed Holy Land entrance to closer and wider views of Norway’s Ski Lodge and two women pausing near the walkway.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a Holy Land doorway, a Norway’s Ski Lodge sign, split-rail fencing, rustic wood buildings, a grass-covered roof, a paved path, and two women outside.
Film character: The scan shows soft 8mm color, visible grain, uneven exposure, gate edges, and slight handheld framing that preserve the texture of original amateur film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short location insert, travelogue transition, attraction cutaway, or memory beat for 1930s leisure and themed-site sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually documents visitors encountering themed built environments in San Francisco, without enough evidence to identify the larger attraction beyond the visible signs.
Research note: Visible people and readable signage suggest likeness and trademark or venue-identification review may be needed, separate from any copyright assessment of the film scan.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 San Francisco 8mm home movie, Norway’s Ski Lodge sign, Holy Land building, rustic lodge attraction, and prewar California travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1939 San Francisco footage, and then with themed attractions, rustic lodges, or prewar tourist-site material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 San Francisco home-movie frame showing a dark facade marked Holy Land, with a shadowy figure or silhouette near the entrance. — Entrance marked “Holy Land” with a shadowed figure in the doorway area.

1939 San Francisco frame showing the Norway’s Ski Lodge sign mounted before a rustic wooden fence and lodge-style exterior. — Close view of the Norway’s Ski Lodge sign and surrounding wooden fence.

Close 8mm frame of the Norway’s Ski Lodge sign, with weathered wood fencing and lodge exterior details behind it. — The Norway’s Ski Lodge sign fills the lower foreground against timber fencing.

1939 San Francisco frame showing two women in period clothing near Norway’s Ski Lodge, a rustic wood building with a grass-covered roof. — Two women pause outside Norway’s Ski Lodge beside a path and rustic building.

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