Santa Cruz California-1949: A Close Up Image Of A Fully Decorated Holiday Tree

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

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A Close Up Image Of A Fully Decorated Holiday Tree — Clip Details

A close-up view of a fully decorated Christmas tree captured on 8mm film in Santa Cruz, California, 1949. The tree is adorned with colorful lights, shiny tinsel, and round ornaments in red, green, and gold. Shot through window blinds, the footage has a soft, nostalgic glow with natural film grain and slight motion blur, evoking a warm, intimate holiday memory from the late 1940s.

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: 125298282

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 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 holiday home-movie requests needing a close domestic Christmas tree cutaway for documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits.
Period detail: The decorated tree, metallic tinsel, colored bulbs, round ornaments, and window blinds may show late-1940s domestic holiday decor supported by the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds close on the tree from a home-movie perspective, creating an intimate seasonal memory without staged performers or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a decorated Christmas tree, shiny tinsel strands, colored lights, round ornaments, horizontal blinds, window framing, and soft interior shadows.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows visible grain, soft focus, slight motion blur, uneven exposure, and flickering highlights that contribute to its archival home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a holiday insert, nostalgic transition, domestic-memory beat, or quiet cutaway between broader family or winter scenes.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for mid-century household holiday display practices through decor and framing, without showing identifiable residents or public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, source ownership, and any property-related context should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1949 Santa Cruz 8mm Christmas tree footage, vintage holiday home movie, decorated tree with tinsel, and mid-century Christmas cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Santa Cruz 1949 material, then other 1940s holiday interiors or Christmas decoration footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Close 1949 Santa Cruz home-movie view of a Christmas tree with shiny tinsel, colored bulbs, and ornaments behind window blinds. — Decorated holiday tree framed through blinds, with tinsel and colored lights catching the film exposure.

1949 Santa Cruz holiday tree detail showing dense tinsel, small colored bulbs, ornaments, and the striped backdrop of closed blinds. — The tree fills the frame with sparkling tinsel, colored bulbs, and ornaments against horizontal blinds.

Santa Cruz 1949 8mm frame of a decorated Christmas tree, with bright tinsel strands, colored ornaments, and blinds visible behind the tree. — A close holiday tree view shows reflective tinsel and ornaments softened by 8mm grain and exposure.

1949 Santa Cruz home-movie still of the upper Christmas tree, with tinsel, ornaments, colored bulbs, and window blinds in the background. — The upper tree and ornaments remain visible as the handheld framing shifts near the end of the clip.

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