Santa Cruz California-1949: Woman and Child Relaxing Beside Swimming Pool

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Year1949
Decade1940s
LocationSanta Cruz, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1949 California

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Woman and Child Relaxing Beside Swimming Pool — Clip Details

SANTA CRUZ CALIFORNIA-1949: A woman and child relax on wooden deck chairs beside a swimming pool on a sunny day. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures a quiet moment of leisure with vibrant green grass, a striped patio umbrella, and the calm water reflecting the scene. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and soft focus evoke a nostalgic, authentic home movie feel from the late 1940s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125297766

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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 1660 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1949
Reel-level location note: del mar, california,chicago
Date: 1949 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: Santa Cruz, 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1940s Santa Cruz home-movie footage for editors needing a brief leisure cutaway of people seated beside an outdoor swimming pool.
Period detail: The scene may show late-1940s poolside leisure, with wooden deck chairs, a striped patio umbrella, lawn, railings, and soft color 8mm texture.
Home-movie behavior: The footage observes a woman and another seated figure relaxing quietly by the pool from a casual, distant home-movie viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a swimming pool, pale deck edge, metal railings, wooden chairs, green lawn, striped umbrella, trees, and seated figures.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, mild color fading, visible grain, and contact-sheet framing that contribute to its home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or memory beat for mid-century family recreation, travel, or poolside leisure sequences.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for informal postwar outdoor recreation in Santa Cruz without documenting a specific public event or named venue.
Research note: People and faces appear at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, privacy, and property questions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1940s Santa Cruz poolside home movie, vintage 8mm swimming pool leisure, and woman seated outdoors by pool.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then Santa Cruz footage from 1949, then other 1940s poolside or family leisure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Santa Cruz 1949 home-movie frame showing two distant seated figures by a pool, with lawn, wooden chairs, railings, and trees. — Two people sit in deck chairs near a swimming pool on a sunny lawn.

Santa Cruz 1949 poolside home-movie frame with seated figures, wooden chairs, a striped patio umbrella, lawn, and pool edge. — A seated adult and another figure relax beside the pool with deck chairs nearby.

Santa Cruz 1949 home-movie frame focused on the pool edge, metal railings, reflected water, lawn, deck chairs, and trees. — The camera drifts across the pool edge and railings, with chairs and lawn beyond.

Santa Cruz 1949 poolside frame showing water, railings, lawn, wooden chairs, a striped umbrella, and trees in soft 8mm color. — Pool water and railings fill the foreground, with lawn furniture and trees behind.

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