Santa Cruz California-1949: Man Relaxing On Lawn Chair As Girl Approaches

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

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Man Relaxing On Lawn Chair As Girl Approaches — Clip Details

SANTA CRUZ CALIFORNIA-1949: A man in a white t-shirt and blue pants relaxes on a green and white striped lounge chair in a grassy backyard. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures a candid moment of leisure with natural film grain and warm, slightly faded colors. The man adjusts his position, then turns as a young girl in a light-colored dress approaches and hands him a small object. The scene evokes a quiet, nostalgic summer day from the late 1940s, with a rustic outdoor setting and a sense of intimate family life.

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: 125297960

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

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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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s home-movie requests needing a brief Santa Cruz backyard leisure moment for documentary, museum, education, or editorial context.
Period detail: The striped wheeled lounge chair, simple yard furniture, and faded 8mm color may show late-1940s domestic recreation in coastal California.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged family interaction as a man rests outside and turns toward a girl approaching with a small object.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a grassy lawn, green-and-white lounge chair, seated man, approaching girl, low stone border, small table, yard shadows, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The footage has warm faded color, soft focus, visible grain, light exposure variation, and contact-print framing typical of scanned home-movie 8mm film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short memory beat, domestic-life cutaway, leisure insert, or transition within a family-history or midcentury recreation sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents casual outdoor family leisure in a private-looking yard without supporting claims about specific events beyond the supplied Santa Cruz 1949 metadata.
Research note: People and faces are visible, including a likely minor, so likeness and any property context should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1949 Santa Cruz home movie, 1940s backyard leisure, 8mm family lawn chair footage, and midcentury California domestic scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then other Santa Cruz 1949 footage, then broader 1940s family leisure or backyard home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Santa Cruz 1949 home-movie footage, a man reclines on a green-and-white striped lounge chair in a sunny yard. — A man rests on a striped wheeled lounge chair in the backyard.

The man shifts on the striped lounge chair in a Santa Cruz yard, with a stone border and small table behind him. — The man turns slightly while seated on the lawn chair.

A closer 8mm frame shows the man with glasses in the yard, partly cropped by the handheld camera. — The camera moves closer to the man, showing his face and glasses.

A girl in a light dress reaches toward the seated man as he holds a small dark object in the Santa Cruz yard. — A girl approaches and reaches toward the man during the backyard moment.

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