San Francisco California-1939: Woman In Blue Dress Watches Fountains In Park

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

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Woman In Blue Dress Watches Fountains In Park — Clip Details

A woman in a blue dress and hat stands at the edge of a large fountain in a sun-drenched park, watching the water jets rise. The 8mm film captures the scene with rich, slightly faded colors and soft focus, characteristic of home movies from the late 1930s. Lush green trees and manicured hedges frame the fountain, while a statue and distant flags add to the park's formal atmosphere. The clip offers a quiet, nostalgic moment of leisure in a public garden.

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: 124763132

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 home-movie footage for productions needing a quiet public-park fountain scene, period leisure cutaway, or city travel memory beat.
Period detail: The woman's dress, hat, formal garden layout, fountain basin, statue, and distant flags may show late-1930s public-park style and visitor sightseeing behavior.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged home-movie value as a visitor observes fountains from the pool edge while the camera holds a simple, personal view of the park.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in a blue dress and hat, fountain jets, a broad pool, manicured hedges, trees, a statue, distant flags, and sunlit walkways.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, saturated but slightly faded color, gate edges, and mild handheld instability that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or reflective cutaway for San Francisco travel, public gardens, leisure, or prewar home-movie atmosphere.
Historical context: The scene places a dressed female visitor within a formal urban park setting, emphasizing public leisure and sightseeing without identifying a specific landmark from the frames alone.
Research note: People and possible brand or flag elements require review for likeness and trademark or emblem context, while copyright status and permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1939 San Francisco 8mm park fountain, 1930s woman watching fountains, vintage home movie public garden, and prewar California travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 San Francisco park scenes, and then broader 1930s fountain, garden, and leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1939 San Francisco home-movie footage, a woman in a blue dress and hat watches fountain jets in a formal park setting. — A woman pauses at the edge of a fountain pool while water jets rise in the background.

A visitor in a blue dress stands beside a fountain pool in a San Francisco park, with water jets and formal landscaping beyond. — The camera holds on the woman from behind as she faces the fountains across the pool.

Late-1930s 8mm footage shows a woman in blue watching tall fountain jets in a landscaped San Francisco park. — Tall fountain spray dominates the frame as the woman stands quietly near the pool edge.

A wider San Francisco park view shows fountain jets, a statue, landscaped plantings, trees, and distant flags in 8mm color footage. — The view shifts wider across the fountain pool toward formal landscaping and a statue.

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