San Francisco California-1939: Boat Sailing Away Panning To A Home That Is Left

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

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Boat Sailing Away Panning To A Home That Is Left — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1939, this vintage home movie captures a view from a boat looking out over the water, with a tugboat visible in the distance. The camera pans left across the deck, revealing a wooden railing and a mooring cleat. The scene transitions to a suburban house with a brick facade, green lawn, and shrubs, suggesting a quiet residential area near the waterfront. The footage features natural film grain, soft color tones, and authentic 1930s-era home movie quality, evoking a sense of nostalgia and everyday life in San Francisco during the late 1930s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124763199

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 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: 1939 San Francisco home-movie footage useful for documentary or educational sequences needing waterfront travel views and a residential cutaway from the late 1930s.
Period detail: The boat deck, wood rail, distant tugboat, and modest residential exterior may show everyday Bay Area travel and home surroundings in the 1930s.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, looking from a moving boat before cutting to a quiet exterior view of a house and lawn.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include bay water, a distant tugboat, hazy shoreline, boat railing, mooring hardware, a slanted deck support, a brick house, lawn, shrubs, and a walkway.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft color, visible grain, gate edges, dust specks, and slight handheld framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel insert, waterfront transition, departure memory beat, or cutaway from public water views to domestic space.
Historical context: The footage places a personal travel perspective beside a residential exterior, suggesting ordinary movement between waterfront and neighborhood settings without identifying a specific address.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are visible or indicated, but copyright status and any property-related use should still be reviewed by the buyer.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1939 San Francisco 8mm home movie, boat deck bay view, distant tugboat, waterfront travel footage, and 1930s residential exterior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 San Francisco waterfront or residential footage, then broader home-movie travel and neighborhood material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 San Francisco home-movie frame looking past a boat railing and mooring hardware toward bay water and a distant tugboat. — View from a boat deck across the water toward a distant tugboat.

1939 San Francisco frame showing a boat deck rail in the foreground, bay water, hazy shoreline, and a distant vessel. — A low boat-deck view across the bay with a small vessel near the horizon.

1939 San Francisco home-movie frame with a boat railing, slanted deck support, pale bay water, and hazy shoreline. — The camera holds on the boat railing as the bay and shoreline recede behind it.

1939 San Francisco home-movie frame showing a brick house exterior with lawn, shrubs, walkway, and surrounding trees. — Residential exterior with a brick facade, trimmed greenery, and a path across the lawn.

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